Untitled (Smoke Tree; Palm Springs Desert), c. 1940s
By George Sanders Bickerstaff
Located in Pasadena, CA
Consigned to American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California; Private Collection, Pasadena, California; Mutual Savings, Pasadena, California — acquired presumably from the artist via an art consultant; Displayed at Mutual Savings headquarters, Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California, c. 1965–1993
A 1955 photo showing Bickerstaff paintings on display at the same Mutual Savings and Loan office in Pasadena can be seen through the online resource at Pasadena Digital History
Label on Verso
Mutual Savings No. 3107
Description
This luminous desert landscape, painted in rich yet delicately modulated tones, depicts California’s Palm Springs Desert with a scattering of smoke trees...
Category
1930s Realist Alexander Fraser Art