Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

Leonard Frank Starks
Ward Ranch Landscape

1969

About the Item

"Ward Ranch", a detailed watercolor landscape by Leonard Frank Starks (American, 1891-1986). Unframed. Signed "L F Starks" lower left. Titled "Ward Ranch-Carlotta" and dated "9-69" on verso. Image: 15"H x 22"W. Leonard Frank Starks was born on Dec. 8, 1891 in Healdsburg, CA. Starks graduated from Lick High School in San Francisco and then studied architecture there. He was a designer for the PPIE before moving to Washington, DC to work for Waddy Butler Wood and for Thomas W. Lamb in NYC. In 1921 he returned to California and established an architecture practice in Sacramento. Some of his important designs there include the Fox Senator and Alhambra theaters, Elks Temple, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. His Fresno Bee Bldg now houses the Fresno Museum of Art, and the Marysville City Hall is of his design. Retiring in 1965, he painted watercolors and sculpted until his death in Sacramento on April 13, 1986.
  • Creator:
    Leonard Frank Starks (1891 - 1986, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1969
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Some age toning and signs of wear, consistent with age and history.
  • Gallery Location:
    Soquel, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: JT-j39871stDibs: LU5422656701

More From This Seller

View All
Aspen in Fall, 1970s Vintage Autumn Landscape Watercolor
By Lewis Suzuki
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant 1970's vintage autumn watercolor landscape scene of an aspen tree with fall foliage by Lewis Suzuki (American, 1920-2016). Artist's signatu...
Category

1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Rag Paper, Watercolor

Lake Landscape with Yellow Trees - Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene watercolor by California artist Edna Lewis (nee Sutherland) (1905-1975). The viewer looks our over an inlet to a lake or bay, with mountain ranges in the distance. Two trees with bright yellow leaves sit at the shore of the water. The sky is rendered with a flowing wet-on-wet style, creating flowing, puffy clouds. Signed and dated "Edna Lewis 61" in the lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame with a blue mat. Frame size: 29"H x 23"W Paper size: 21.75"H x 15"W Edna Evelyn Sutherland Lewis (American, 1905-1975) was born in Porterville, CA on April 17, 1905. She studied art at the University of California before going on to study with Kenneth Washburn and Dr. Raymond Brose (San Jose State). Lewis was a long-time resident of Redwood City...
Category

1960s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Laid Paper, Watercolor

Whalers Shack on the Northern California Coast - Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of a Whaling shack circa 1900 near Davenport, California attributed to Lillian Josephine (Dake) Heath (19th century). Monogram on Verso "J. H. 1900". Dated and initialed on verso "J. H. Feb. 1900" Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 14"H x 18"W Paper size: 9.25"H x 13.25"W Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath...
Category

Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Old Barn - Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic farmhouse landscape by California artist Edwin Haas (American, 1927-2010). A barn with a boarded window is the primary focus of this piece. It is seated in a lush landscape, full of grass, with a small stream running through the center. To the right of the barn is a bare oak tree, and steps can be seen leading to another building. A Sacramento artist...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Trees and Rolling Hills Landscape - Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Small landscape with large trees by M. J. (Charles) Karnoff (Russian-American). Several large trees occupy the left side of the frame, lining a simple fence. There are some rolling hills in the background, with smaller trees on the horizon. Initialed "M.J.K." in lower right corner. Presented in a new off-white mat...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Paper, Gouache

House on the Hillside in the Trees - Watercolor on Paper
By Emil Armin
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored watercolor landscape by Emil Armin (American/Rumanian, 1882-1972). A house with a bright red roof is nestled between some trees at the bottom of a hillside. The trees are depicted as large, voluminous shapes, giving them a solid presence in the composition. Signed "E. Armin '11" in the lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame with a mat. Frame size: 29"H x 33"W Image size: 18.75"H x 22.5"W Born in Rumania on April 1, 1883, Emil Armin studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's evening classes under Dudley Crafts Watson, Randall Davey and George Bellows, then he graduated in 1920. Between 1922 and 1949 he exhibited his works at the Art Institute annuals and was involved in the No-Jury Society, organized in 1922. At that time he was immersed in Chicago's bohemian 57th Street Art Colony and he experimented with sculpture and decorative arts as a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. He taught at Chicago's Hull House (1925-26) and did cartoons full of angular forms and a particular method of shading and "zigzag outlining" taken from German Expressionist masters, for the Chicago Literary Times, a journal created by Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht. Samuel Putnam, a critic for the Chicago Evening Post (21 September 1926) regarded Armin as "perhaps the most finely sensitized artist in Chicago . . . with the soul of a peasant and the mind of a philosopher." In 1928 Armin traveled to New Mexico where he executed a naïve, child-like woodcut, Mountain Farm, Santa Fe (Art Institute). Chicago critic Bulliet's characterization of Armin as a "primitive" in impulses, "though sophisticated and intelligent" applies here: "His work resembles somewhat the peasant art...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

You May Also Like

"Untitled 1, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 1" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an urban landscape with human silhouettes.
Category

2010s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Cloudy Dock Scene", working peir with fishermen, boats, and architecture
By John Cuthbert Hare
Located in Rockport, MA
John Cuthbert Hare was an accomplished New England painter born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his artistic journey by studying commercial art at the Pratt Institute in New York Cit...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mount Monadnock
By Frank Weston Benson
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional watercolor of Mount Monadnock snow capped in winter in New Hampshire by American artist Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951). Benson was born in Salem, Massachusetts and went on to study in Boston at the Museum School of Fine Arts and later with Julian Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Academie Julian in Paris. Benson was well known for his impressionist landscapes and seascapes, and etchings of hunting scenes. Watercolor on paper, signed lower left F.W. Benson with inscription “To Mrs Bush,” titled on Vose Galleries...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mount Monadnock
By Gifford Beal
Located in Milford, NH
A fine monochromatic watercolor landscape painting of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire by American artist Gifford Beal (1879-1956). Beal was b...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Malcolm Edwards. Welsh Sheepdog, Shepherd And Herding Sheep. Mountain Landscape.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Malcolm Edwards. Welsh ( b.1934 ). Welsh Sheepdog, Shepherd & Sheep. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 8.9 inches x 19.7 inches ( 22.5cm x 50cm ). Frame size 16.7 inches x ...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Rolling Country
By Louis Ritman
Located in Missouri, MO
Louis Ritman (1889-1963) "Rolling Country" c. 1945 Original Watercolor on Paper Signed Lower Left Provenance: Milch Galleries, NY (original label verso) ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Recently Viewed

View All