The winner of this package will receive a set of books and video on California art of the Impressionist period from The Irvine Museum. During the Late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, California's majestic landscape was the inspiration for a profusion of light-filled paintings. Artists set out to capture its vivid colors and intense sunshine in a distinctive style that has come to be called California Impressionism or California plein air painting. Venturing out into nature, these artists often depicted California as a colorful, sunlit garden of wildflowers or a tranquil retreat with a quit pool framed by the aesthetic branches of eucalyptus, Monterey cypress, or live oak trees.