Stewart Kelley

'Industrial Landscape in Blue', California, Marin Society of Artists, Nassau

1990

Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960. A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.

Signed lower left "M. Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman. Titled verso "Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg- Mendocino, Ca" and painted circa 1955. A moody, mid-c...

Signed lower right, 'Gren Hayes' (American, born 1932); additionally signed verso twice, titled 'Port of Oakland' on stretcher bar and dated 1976. Inscribed 'Oak. Cathedral Bldg Mural #1 sketch' verso. Bay Area Figurative / Bay Area Feminist Art Movement artist, Patricia Gren-Hayes, studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba. She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada. She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez...

Signed lower right "Margaret Bode" and painted circa 1975. A mid-century watercolor showing a lyrical coastal landscape with a boat and lobster posts and a forested headland across a peaceful bay. Margaret Griebenow Bode (American, 1909-2007) graduated from UCLA in 1932 with a degree in art and subsequently studied sculpture at Peninsula College. She was a member of the Sequim Art Association and the California Watercolor...

Oil on canvas

Thelma Corbin Moody Blue Mountains c. 1960's Gouache on Arches Paper 19 1/4" x 24 3/4", Unframed Unsigned Lovely, mid century gouache painting, b...

Brightly colored industrial watercolor landscape of houses and a clothesline in Pacific Grove, California by Charles F. Thomas (American, 1913-2005), a Carmel, California watercolor artist...

Oil on canvas.