Virginia Sevier Rogers

'Gloucester Harbor', Post Impressionist Carmel, California woman artist, PAFA

1996

Signed verso, 'Keith Longcor', dated 1989 and titled, 'Diamond Auto Electric'. A kinetic, post-industrial landscape showing a view of various automobiles parked on a garage forecour...

Initialed lower right, 'K.W.' for Katherine Westphal (American, 1919-2018) and painted circa 1965; additionally bearing label, verso, inscribed with artist's name and titled 'Venice'. Framed Dimensions: 33.25 x 2 x 29 Inches A large, Post-Impressionist oil showing a view of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute on the Punte della Dogana with half-a-dozen gondolas rocking on the gentle swell of the Guidecca. A vibrant modernist vedute by this well-listed California woman artist who shows the iconic Baroque church as if suspended in golden light, both reflecting the sunset and, itself, reflected in the shimmering waters. Born in Los Angeles, Katherine Westphal first attended Los Angeles City College and, subsequently, the University of California at Berkeley where she studied painting and art history and received both her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees. In 1943, she was awarded the Phelan Travelling Scholarship which funded her travel to Mexico where she visited the studios of both David Siquieros and Diego Rivera, an experience that confirmed her lifelong preference for Modernist principles in her work. Over the course of a long and multi-faceted career, Westphal exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. In addition to her career as a fine artist, Westphal wrote extensively on art theory and also became a beloved teacher at the University of California, Davis, becoming a tenured faculty member in 1968, a full professor in 1975. She retired in 1979 as Professor Emeritus. Katherine Westphal’s work is held in the permanent collections of prominent American museums including the Smithsonian Museum...

This pretty oil on canvas modernist composition, typical of the 1950s, features a house in a village in the countryside with imaginary blue trees, designed by Claude Richard Mazier (...

Lawrence Rothbort Belt Parkway, circa 1950 Oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches Lawrence Rothbort was born March 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a model from infancy for his father, Amer...