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Roger HoltChina Camp Fishing Village - San Rafael California - Abstract ImpressionistCirca 1945
Circa 1945
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China Camp Fishing Village - San Rafael California - Abstract Impressionist
Wonderfully vivid nocturnal of coastal town by Roger Holt (American 1905-1979). Signed faintly lower right (see enhanced image of signature). Condition: good; professionally cleaned; edge wear consistent with age professionally restored; craquelure throughout, New UV-resistant, non yellowing varnish applied.
Unframed.
Image size: 14.25"H x 17.25"W.
Signed indistinctly lower right.
China Camp State Park is a 1,514-acre park in San Rafael, California. The park is known for its scenic views, hiking and mountain biking trails, and open spaces. It also features a historic Chinese American shrimp-fishing village and a salt marsh. By the mid-1880s, Chinese Americans had established a settlement of about 500 people in a village they called China Camp. Many of these villagers were originally from Canton, China, and supported themselves and their families here by shrimp fishing in San Francisco Bay. The village had three general stores, a barbershop, and a marine supply shop at its peak. China Camp was one of about twenty-six other shrimp-fishing villages along the coast that supported Chinese American immigrants fleeing San Francisco due to racial prejudice and persecution.
Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the population of China Camp ballooned as nearly 10,000 residents of San Francisco’s Chinatown fled the destruction and mayhem.
Roger Holt was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After attending Rollins College and St. Paul's School of Art in Minnesota, he traveled extensively through the United States and Europe, forming his educational background.
Hold was the recipient of five major awards, Mr. Holt exhibited in thirteen museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Carnegie Institute and the United Nations Building.
Settling in Jerome, Arizona in 1954, Roger assisted his wife, Shan Holt, in the operation of the Verde Valley Artist's Gallery and concentrated on his work, experimenting with different painting surfaces such as masonite, canvas board and stiff cardboard. His early work identified with the Expressionist school, while his later work tends toward increasing abstraction.
Roger Holt's paintings are included in the collections of Abraham Ribicoff, Vincent Price, John McCloy, Artie Shaw, Burl Ives and numerous universities across the country including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art at the University of New Orleans.
Arizona painter, Lew Davis once said, speaking of Holt's work, "that guy knows how to paint".
(Source: June of 2006 by the artist's grandson, Brad Holt)
- Creator:Roger Holt (1905 - 1979, American)
- Creation Year:Circa 1945
- Dimensions:Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:good; professionally cleaned; edge wear consistent with age, craquelure throughout, professionally restored; New UV-resistant, non yellowing varnish applied.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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