Jane Gallatin Powers – a California Modernist

Slideshow & Book Signing with Erin Lee Gafill

 While the Bohemians were writing poetry and making Carmel famous, a group of painters, mostly women, were doing the work of building a sustainable arts community that would become Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Jane Gallatin Powers was the “spiritual rock” of the nascent art colony. Her story and artwork has never been published…until now.

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Jane Gallatin Powers – a California Modernist

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 Artist Jane Gallatin Powers co-founded Carmel-by-the-Sea with her husband, attorney Frank Hubbard Powers. Founded by her grand daughter, Lolly Fassett, Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur, a legendary watering hole for artists and writers, is an expression of her cultural and aesthetic influence. She was a celebrated painter on the avant-garde of artistic styles. Her work was exhibited in California and Europe during her lifetime, yet completely forgotten after her death. Almost four decades later, a chance discovery in a Carmel basement unearthed her extraordinary paintings.

This is Jane’s story. Re-constructed out of family letters, newspaper clippings, and interviews with those few who remembered her, it is lavishly illustrated with Jane’s paintings, drawings, and historical photographs, researched and written by her great-great-granddaughter, Erin Lee Gafill.

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