John Bingham

'Port of Sark' Channel Islands, California, Laguna Beach Art Association, Carmel

1962

Signed lower right, 'Michel Kady' and dated 1948. A substantial watercolor on Arches paper showing a coastal scene with figures walking beside the Pacific Ocean beneath imposing cli...

Signed lower left, 'Helen Hafer' (American, 1913-2003) and with artist label verso. This listed California artist, Hafer studied at the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles, and privately with Harry Emerson Lewis. A member of the Palm Springs Art Association, Desert Art Center in Palm Springs, Whittier Art Association, Orange County Art Association and the Laguna Beach Art...

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...

Signed lower right, 'Fred Korburg' and dated 1969; additionally signed, dated and titled verso, 'Coast at Elsinore, Denmark'. Provenance: Los Robles Galleries, Palo Alto, California....

California Image by well known watercolorist Milford Zornes (1908-2008). This work in mint condition, is signed lower right “Zornes,” and dated ‘67. The watercolor is also signed on the verso ‘Milford Zornes, ANA’ and titled “From Dana Point.” This painting is unframed and measures 21"h x 27"w. It’s a beautiful depiction of Dana Point in Orange County. A prominent artist in the watercolor movement known as the California Style, Milford Zornes became especially known for his application of watercolor in broad brush strokes to large sheets of paper. He was born in Camargo, Oklahoma, and moved to Los Angeles while a teenager. In Santa Maria, California, he enrolled in Santa Maria Junior College, where he had art instruction from Stanley Breneiser and lived for a period of time with him and his wife, Babs Breneiser who was an art teacher at the local high school. Then at age 20, he began adventurous travel that took him across the United States that had him working on the docks of New York City, and then shipping out to Denmark as a merchant seaman, a job that eventually led to a tour of Europe. He returned to Los Angeles by 1930, and studied at the Otis Art Institute with F. Tolles Chamberlain, and at Pomona College where Millard Sheets was his teacher. Throughout the 1930s, he was exhibiting widely including the 1938 Art Institute of Chicago International Watercolor Exhibition, Seventeenth Year. Zornes did murals during World War II for the Federal Arts Project of the W.P.A., and was a United States Army artist correspondent in Burma and India. Because of the distinction of his W.P.A. and other wartime artwork, he was honored with a one-person exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and one of his paintings was selected by President and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt for the White House Collection. This attention brought him much positive publicity. After the war, he lived in several locations in California and in 1963, Milford and his wife Pat, bought the Maynard Dixon summer home and studio in Salt Lake City, Utah from Edith Hamlin...

Morro Bay is a seaside city in San Luis Obispo County, California. Located on the Central Coast of California, the city population was 10,757, as of the 2020 census, up from 10,234 a...

Landscape Seascape Painting of The Little Bay in Jersey by Artist James Longueville PS PBSA (British Northern School) Oil on board, signed bottom left,...

This original watercolor by Dwight Baird, drawn on location at the Port of Gomera on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, captures the charm of several fishing boats resting in the harbor...