Daniel Clarke

Capistrano Under the Arch, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

2022

Stretching from San Diego to Sonoma, the 21 missions of Alta California are storied reminders of California and our nation's past. Few regions of the world have such a physical, visu...

Avalon Chimes Take your ships and your sailors, to that island of the sky, take them all to Avalon, where the dreamers fly. The gentle winds breeze, the voice of a longing ...

In old Palm Springs, north, just beyond the charming attempts at glamour, trunks of big palm trees look like elephants' legs: parched, dermatological checked, and weary. The Ear...

In our courtyard small garden of so many flowers Are the plants in competition with each other? Oleander, different kinds of hibiscus, bougainvillea White Jasminum sambac and red ...

Beautiful double sided watercolor painting of an adobe archway with a tree in the center and desert hills overtaking the background, and a painting of the colorful "Catarina" boat on verso by Lillie. E. Heebner, a Watsonville, Monterey Bay area, California watercolor artist. Signed "L.E. Heebner" bottom right. Unframed. Image: 15"H x 22"W. Lillie (Lil) E. Heebner was guided through life by her creativity. Even at 92, she never felt old, and often said so. She met every situation in life—including death—with ingenuity. Although born in Richmond, Lillie lived in Watsonville all her life. Her father, Frederick H. Hillman, grew up on a strawberry ranch in Pajaro, graduated from Watsonville High School in 1916, and served in France during World War I. He later worked for Martinelli's Apple Cider plant and became foreman. Lillie's mother, Esther C. Hobson, moved as an infant from Bakersfield to Santa Cruz with her family in 1901, when they founded Hobson's Bath House at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk...

Carmel Mission in Early Spring - Original Watercolor Painting 1983 A vantage point from the backside of Camel Mission's cupola, this watercolor is brightly painted with spring flowe...

This artwork Titled "Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California" c.1970, is a large watercolor on heavy Arches watercolor paper by Carmel impressionist artist Edward ...

Signed lower right, 'Henry Volle' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. A substantial and lyrically painted watercolor view of the original Spanish colonial church and mission buildings at Carmel on the coast of California with a view beyond towards the Carmel highlands. Henry "Hank" Volle first attended the University of Illinois and subsequently studied in Europe, including at the Klinger Institute, Vienna. Upon returning to the United States, Volle began to study with the water-colorists of the California Bay area. Essentially a plein-air painter, Hank Volle painted along the California coast where he exhibited with success. He was also a member of the Santa Clara Watercolor Society and the Society of Western Artists.