Arthur F. Mathews: Cypresses Boxed Notecard Set

$19.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A lifelong artist, influential teacher, and tireless civic-arts advocate, Arthur F. Mathews and his wife, artist Lucia K. Mathews, developed the California Decorative Style—a signature fusion of turn-of-the-20h-century Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts styles. From around 1910, the couple made annual summer visits to the Monterey Peninsula, where they maintained a house and studio. The distinctive light and color indigenous to the region brought forth more intensity of color to Mathews’s low-toned palette, and…