Utrecht now covers San Francisco from East to West with our new location on Van Ness Avenue. Our new store has more space, more merchandise, and everything else you’ve come to expect from Utrecht.

Whether you’re driving in from Marin, zooming up from San Jose, walking over from Fisherman’s Wharf, or over from downtown, visit us! You’ll find ample parking, lots of restaurants and cafes nearby on Polk Street and all of the art supplies you need as a professional, student, or hobbyist.

The Van Ness store’s webpage with store info:

http://www.utrechtart.com/stores/dsp_viewstore.cfm?storeID=150

1930 Van Ness Ave (@ Jackson)

• All Utrecht pre-stretched canvas:  buy one, get the second at half-price
• Utrecht artist colors, large tubes and pints: buy one, get the second at half price
• Our popular Utrecht Brand volume discounts are still in effect: ask an associate for details

By employing the reconstructed formulas of the painting masters today, Masterpanels once more makes possible the renewal of a great tradition of creating art. These panels come completely ready to use right out of the box.

Each hand-crafted panel is made utilizing fiberboard and prepared with a special Renaissance recipe gesso. This treatment renders the panel’s surface mostly non-absorbent. This allows your paint to sit on top of the surface, and not soak into the gesso foundation.

These panels are a favorite of plein air painters and perfect for Oils, Alkyds, Acrylics and Egg Tempera.
1/4″ Thick Panel

As an added bonus, we’ll even give you $10 back when you buy $50 or more worth or supplies and we know how easy that is to do! Prices are good through 4-13-08. Print out the coupon below or come into the store to get one on the back of a flyer and we’ll see you soon.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood (1885) by John Singer Sargent. Oil on canvas. 54.0 × 64.8 cm. Tate Gallery, London.

En plein air is a French expression which means “in the open air”, and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-1800s working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism. The popularity of painting en plein air increased in the 1870s with the introduction of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpaste tubes). Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil. The Newlyn School in England is considered another major proponent of the technique in the latter 19th century.

It was during this period that the “Box Easel”, typically known as the French Box Easel, was invented. It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette, made treks into the forest and up the hillsides less onerous. Still made today, they remain a popular choice even for home use since they fold up to the size of a brief case and thus are easy to store.

French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors, in the diffuse light provided by a large white umbrella. In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin and I.E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air. American Impressionists, too, such as those of the Old Lyme school, were avid painters en plein air. American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert. The Canadian Group of Seven originated by Tom Thomson and artist Sherie Sloane are examples of plein air advocates.

Painters gathered at Slide Rock State Park, Arizona in 2006.

Welcome to Utrecht Art Supplies San Francisco! The busiest, the friendliest, the most jam-packed art store filled with whatever you need to further your professional career or launch your student years. And if you find something in our company catalog or website but can’t find it in our loaded isles, let us know and we’ll special order it for you.

And if you don’t have a way to get that large canvas or easel home don’t worry, we deliver for free within San Francisco on orders over $150.

Store Info

We are located at 149 New Montgomery Street between Mission and Howard Streets, right on the corner of Minna Alley and in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant and ever-growing Soma neighborhood.

Store Hours are Monday through Froday 8:00-7pm, Saturday 10:00-6pm and Sunday 12:00-6pm.

Academy of Art Satellite Stores

We have 2 satellite store locations within Academy of Art University buildings at 466 Townsend Street on the 3rd floor and at 60 Federal Street on the 4th floor. Access to these stores is limited to the Academy of Art community.

The Satellite store hours are Monday through Thursday 8:14-4:30 and 8:15-4 on Friday.

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