Location: Monte Verde Street between Ocean and 7th Avenues

Open Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday

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Council Chamber

NOTE: The City Hall Council Chamber is only open to the public during public meetings. See the meeting calendar or call (831) 620-2000 for more information.

Placeholder for: “Concerned Citizen,” by Olof Dahlstrand. Created in 2006. William Posey Silva, 1859-1948 / “Cypress at Point Lobos.” Framed Letter to Senor Alcalde of Carmel by the Sea from Petra, Spain.

Artists

Hoyland Bettinger, 1890-1950: Bettinger was a Massachusetts landscape artist and painter of coastal scenes, and a prominent teacher in New England. During World War II, he wrote and directed training films for the government, later managing television stations. Bettinger settled in Carmel in the late 1940s; from his Carmel studio came landscapes, portraits, seascapes, and depictions of local landmarks.

Paul Beygrau, 1871-1935: Beygrau was an English painter who emigrated to the US in 1909, living in Seattle until he moved to California around 1920. He soon settled in Carmel and resided there until his passing in 1935.

Olof Dahlstrand, 1916-2014: Dahlstrand was an architect and artist who studied at Cornell University. His career included the design of many homes and buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Carmel area. Dahlstrand designed Carmel’s Wells Fargo Bank building and the Crocker National Bank building, which became the Park Branch Library. He belonged to the Carmel Art Association and enjoyed both painting and drawing.

Tina Danzansky, 1920-2012: Danzansky was born in Fowler, CA and grew up in Santa Clara as the eldest child of a large family. She had a strong pioneering spirit and was the first woman from Santa Clara to volunteer for service in the Navy Waves during World War II. In addition to raising three daughters, she carved out a career for herself as a very accomplished artist in watercolor and oils. Danzansky showed her work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and received an Audubon Society award for her nature paintings.

Armin C. Hansen, 1886-1957: Hansen was a prominent plein air painter known for his marine canvases. Hansen was born in San Francisco and studied at the California School of Design. He first visited Monterey in 1913, and became active in the Carmel art colony, supporting the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club and the Carmel Art Association. 

Paul Kirtland Mays, 1887-1961: Mays was an American painter, illustrator, and muralist. He studied at Oberlin College, Ohio and at the Art Students League, New York. From 1933-1936, Mays fulfilled many commissions for the Works Progress Administration’s Public Works of Art Project. He first visited Carmel in 1915, lived here briefly in the 1920s, and moved to Carmel permanently in the 1930s. Mays was active in the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club and Carmel Art Association.

Frank H. Myers, 1899-1956: Meyers was a landscape and marine painter who was born in Ohio and studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In the early 1940s, Myers moved with his wife and son to the Monterey area and established his studio in Pacific Grove. Myers was active in the Carmel Art Association and served as president in 1953. 

Lee F. Randolph, 1880-1956: Randolph was an American painter, printmaker, and educator who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Art Students League of New York. He served as the director of California School of Fine Arts from 1917 to 1941. Following Lee’s retirement in the 1940s, the Randolph family moved to Carmel, where Lee was active in the Carmel Art Association, serving as vice president in 1951.

Jonathan Scott, 1914-1995: Born in Bath, England, Scott studied at the Heatherly School in London, Heymann School in Munich, Academie di Bella Arti in Florence, Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and with Armin Hansen in Carmel. He settled in Pasadena shortly after his marriage in 1938 to Virginia Steele whose collection of American art is held at the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, CA. In 1964 he moved to Taos, NM where he remained until his death on Jan. 16, 1995. He was a member of the Taos Art Association and the California Watercolor Society, serving as its President in 1960.

William Posey Silva, 1859-1948: At the age of 50, after retiring from a successful career in the chinaware business, Silva studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris and became a noted landscape painter. He moved to Carmel in 1913 and built a studio in the sand dunes off Carmelo Street. Silva was an early member of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club and a founding member of the Carmel Art Association in 1927.

Hans Skalagard, 1924-2017: Skalagard, a lifelong sailor and merchant mariner during World War II and the Korean War, became a renowned and prolific maritime artist. From the mid-1960s to mid-1990s he operated a gallery in Carmel with his wife featuring his paintings of ships and the sea. In 2013 he was inducted into California’s Scandinavian American Hall of Fame.