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Scarecrow with Nesting Birds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Aiwa' and dated 1996.
A substantial, pen and ink and watercolor figural study of a scarecrow dressed in cap, ragged jacket and vest with a pair of birds perche...
Category
1990s Surrealist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
'Cattle at Pasture', Danish Impressionist Landscape oil, Paris, France
By Gunnar Bundgaard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Bundgaard' for Gunnar Bundgaard (Danish, 1920-2005) and dated '57'.
A light-filled, panoramic landscape showing Holstein cattle grazing in a grassy field beneath sun-lit clouds.
This listed Danish painter first studied at Copenhagen's Gronvang School where he was particularly influenced by the romantic academic style of Niels Pederson...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Iglesia San Antonio', Bay Area Abstraction, Mendocino Art Center, San Diego
By Pieter Smoor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Pieter Smoor" and dated 1966.
Titled "Iglesia San Antonio" on old Mendocino Art Center label verso.
A semi-abstract landscape showing a view of the dome of a ren...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Orchids and Persimmon', California School of Fine Arts
By Kevin Elston
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kevin Elston' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
A substantial watercolor still-life of orchids and a persimmon, arranged with other objects relat...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Abstract Figure, Ebony and Cream'
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed bottom right 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
An exploration of tonality using airbrush techniques and negative space, sweeping lines define a figure.
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
'Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England', Tudor Architecture, National Gallery
By Edward Salomons
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An exceptionally fine study of this landmark Tudor manor house in the English county of Cheshire.
Signed lower right, 'E. Salomons', dated 1900 and titled, 'Moreton Hall'.
Close a...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
'Life Among the Clouds', Hookah, Persian, Indian, Sufi, Hashish
By Keith Halonen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Keith Halonen" (American, b. 1946), dated 1969, and titled lower left, "Life Among the Clouds".
Richly patterned, ink figurative showing a man lounging on the f...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
'Dynamic Figurative', California Post-Impressionist, Ruskin School of Art
By Robert Moesle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Moesle" and painted circa 1975.
Gouache and watercolor figurative showing numerous figures in dynamic interaction.
Born in 1932, Robert Moesle studied painting ...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
'The Young Flute Player', Music, Woodwind Instrument
By Julio Castillo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Julio Castillo" and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century figural watercolor showing a boy playing the flute and a girl watching...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Seated Jester
By Dan Wuthrich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wuthrich', and accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.
Oil portrait of a jester dressed in black, white and emerald harlequin with bells on his collar and fool's hat, seated on a stone wall with the full moon hanging low in the coral and wine-red sky behind him.
Raised in a family that supported Wuthrich's interest in the arts, Dan Wuthrich has been painting since he was eight and at eleven had artwork featured in a Wisconsin newspaper article. After high school, Wuthrich continued his fine art studies at the Layton School of Art from 1954-1959 and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1961 taking courses in printmaking, English, speech and psychology. While maintaining his painting career, Wuthrich established a professional career as an engineer from 1965 to 1991, working for American Motors...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Torrey Pines Beach, San Diego', Carmel Art Association, Monterey Museum of Art
By Edwin Adamson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A view of the famous San Diego state park beach, shown at sunset with figures walking on the shore.
Signed lower right, 'Edwin Adamson', titled verso, 'Torrey Pines Beach' and painted circa 1965.
An alumnus of Hamlin University and the University of Minnesota, Adamson maintained his interest as an amateur watercolorist while pursuing a military career. Retiring with honors in 1978, he expanded his interest in painting and was elected a member of the Carmel Art...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Abstract in Lilac and Lapis', Denver Metropolitan Museum, Germany, Galerie Lutz
By Kenneth Martin Snodgrass
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, Amrican school o,il abstract comprising adjacent and superimposed, organic shapes in Prussian blue, vermilion, and olive contrasted against a slate and lavender groun...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Geometric Interior', New York ASL, California Watercolor Society, Oakland
By Jon Cornin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Cornin," dated "LVII" for 1957, and titled verso "Uncial."
Jon Cornin first studied with Raphael Soyer at New York's Art Student's League and, subsequently, at the Grand Central School of Art. Using the pseudonym, CorKa, he and his wife, Zena Kavin produced cartoons for Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker from 1941-1952. The Cornins moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1940 and settled in Oakland. In addition to his career as a painter, Jon Cornin was also a noted teacher, respected theorist of Modernism and the author of 'Painter's Credo: Selected Notes' (Stone House Press, 1985). He exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards.
Partial List of Exhibitions:
Museum of New Mexico, 1937-39; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939-45; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938, 1940, 1945; California Watercolor...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Port of Sark' Channel Islands, California, Laguna Beach Art Association, Carmel
By John Bingham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and painterly watercolor on Arches paper showing the sole port of the island of Sark in the Channel Islands with fishermen standing and conversing on the mole.
Signed lower right, 'John Bingham'; additionally signed on old backing, titled 'Island Ramparts', and dated 1962.
This listed California artist exhibited widely and with success including at the Laguna Beach Art...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil landscape showing a view of several age-worn buildings near waters edge, with two sailboats making their way past, and gold and lavender hued hills in the background.
Signed low...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Carnival Figures', New York Exhibited Oil, Mid-century Woman Artist, Theater
By Dorothy Ebenstein
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Ebenstein' titled verso, 'Seduction' and painted circa 1966. Accompanied by 1966 exhibition label from Barzansky Galleries, New York.
A substantial, Expression...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Lakeshore Drive, Chicago', Modernist Cityscape, Woman Artist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, Modernist view of Chicago, seen in the evening with the lights of numerous buildings reflected in the still waters of Lake Michigan.
Signed lower right "M. Backman" f...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Field of Wild Poppies', American Impressionist, Woman Artist, Horticultural Oil
By Jane Chenoweth
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Chenoweth' for Jane Chenoweth (American, 20th century).
Oil botanical showing a field of vermilion poppies with white and gold daisies contrasted against ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Two Figures', Bogota, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Colombian Modernist
By Leonel Gongora
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'Gongora' for Leonel Gongora (Colombian, 1932-1999), dated 1963, and titled verso 'Ataque'.
Born in Cartago, Colombia, Gongora studied at Escuela de Bellas Artes...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
'Abstract in Coral and Gold'
By John Franklin Sommers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil abstract comprising overlapping squares and circles in spackled shades of crimson, ochre, cream, ivory, and black, accented by curved linear elements.
Attributed t...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Forms in Blue & Gray', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
By Robert George Gilberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954.
A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', American School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant, cabinet-size, American School abstract comprising fragmented structural areas of goldenrod, coral, and ebony, superimposed on a soft field of jade and sage green.
Signed...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
'Minotaur Descending', California woman artist
By Vanessa Stafford
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1991.
A dramatic, dreamlike townscape showing a minotaur standing at the head of a flight of stone stairs and silhouetted against a cobalt-blue night sky lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground, a figure flees while a beneficent stone statue overlooks the scene. Using soft washes of color over elegant and precise linear outlines, the artist has created an enigmatic and compelling work
This California painter and muralist received an Associate Degree in Studio Art from Cabrillo College in 1985 and subsequently studied graphic design and illustration at San Jose State University. She later continued her studies under Dave McGuire and Alice Carter.
Vanessa Stafford has exhibited with success nationwide and is the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including 1st places at the Santa Cruz County Fair (1994,1998), 1st place in the Art Ability Exhibition, Maoli, PA (2012) and first place for the United Nations Linus Pauling...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
The Medieval Bridge at Aylesford in the County of Kent, English River Landscape
By Frank Sherwin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicate watercolor view of the Bridge at Aylesford over the River Medway in the English county of Kent.
Signed lower left "Frank Sherwin", (English,...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Rain', Los Gatos Woman Artist, China, Germany, Santa Cruz, California
By Gisela Embree
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed verso, 'Gisela Embree' and Titled 'Rain'.
Born in Germany in 1927, Gisela Embree immigrated to the United States in 1948. She began to study Chinese brush painting in 1975, and it became her artistic focus for the rest of her life. Embree studied art both in the United States and in China, and was a member of Gallery Saratoga and El Gatito Gallery, in Los Gatos...
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Sailing Boat in Harbor', SFMOMA, Woman Artist, California Post-Impressionist
By Jae Carmichael
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An attractive mid-century coastal scene showing a sailing boat resting in a calm berth on turquoise waters.
Signed lower left "Jae Carmichael" (American, 1925-2005) and dated 1957.
...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'Dynamic Abstract', California San Francisco Bay Area Modernism, Thiebaud
By Robert George Gilberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century watercolor abstract comprising interrelated geometric and biomorphic elements in a palette of primary and secondary colors.
Signed upper left, 'Gilberg' ...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen
'In the Artist's Studio', Danish Expressionist Woman Artist
By Grethe Norgard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Post-Impressionist-style oil interior scene showing a view of an artist's working studio with a paintbox and tools in the foreground and an Expressionist style figurative oil paint...
Category
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Sleeping', Early Paris Post Impressionist Oil, Salon d’Automne, Fauve
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated "51".
Born in Denmark, Jais Nielsen initially studied at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler under Kristian Zahrtma...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Still Life of Flowers', Paris, Salon D'Automne, Danish Avant-Garde, 'The Four'
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955.
Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Ebony & Rust', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Large Oil
By Eral Leek
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Eral" for Eral Leek (American, 20th century) and dated 1962.
A substantial, mid-century oil abstract comprising bold, overlapping rectangular compositional elem...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Mother and Child', Los Angeles, USC, San Jose, Modernist Figural
By Louis La Barbera
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Louis La Barbera" and tilted lower left, "Mother and Child".
Louis La Barbera first studied at San Jose State University, receiving his Master’s Degree in Fine ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Monotype
'Reclining Nude', Art Institute of Chicago, Hans Bellmer, Expressionism
By Hendrik Grise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Grise" and painted circa 1965.
A substantial Expressionist-style figural watercolor of a young woman reclining on a divan.
Grise first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Seated Nude', California Post-Impressionist, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped verso with Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) Estate Stamp and created circa 1955.
Graphite nude showing a young woman seated on a chair, one leg tucked beneath her, with ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Seated Nude with Mandolin';Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A graphite study of a young woman, shown nude and seated on a couch, one knee drawn up, beside a table bearing a mandolin.
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso; d...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Reclining Nude', Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Paris, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), dated 1954 and inscribed with Roman numeral "II".
Ink drawing of a woman reclining with knees bent, her head r...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Refracted Sunset, Coral and Ocean Blue', Seascape
By Nada Brahma
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Lower right "N.Brahma", inscribed verso "Nada Brahma" and titled "Refracted Sunset".
A large watercolor seascape showing an abstracted view of jade and cobalt waves beneath a scarle...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
'Woman Sleeping', Large Modernist Figural Oil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Portland
By Julio Lavallen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Lavallen', dated 1987 and titled verso 'Mujer Dormida' (Woman Sleeping).
A large figural oil painting of a young woman shown reclining on a sofa.
Julio Lavallen...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Standing Nude', Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen Modernist
By Evgenij Klenø
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Kleno" for Evgenij Klenø (Dutch, 1921-2005).
Oil nude showing a young woman standing with hands clasped below her chin and knees tur...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Rain in Provence', French Post-Impressionist artist, MAM Paris
By Henri Ottmann
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Henry Ottmann' (French, 1877-1927) and dated 1922.
A softly painted view of a small village in Provence with rain clouds hanging above the hills and terracotta r...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Moonlit Garden, Cairo', Mid-century, Egyptian City, American University
By Roger A. Flynn
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Roger A. Flynn', dated 1956 and titled 'Cairo.'
A Mid-Century gouache showing a view of the moonlit Egyptian harbor lined with Moorish arches and framed by papyrus fronds. Flynn studied art at the Cooper Union in New York and was awarded a two-year Fulbright Scholarship which he spent in Egypt, painting and establishing the Art Department at the American University...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
'Fishing Boats Off Monterey', Carmel, California Expressionist Seascape, Big Sur
By Robert Canete
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, "Canete", for Robert Canete, a Carmel artist who studied with Vincent Rascon in the 1960s and, later, with Dwight Miller at Stanford.
A colorful Expressionist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'After the Bacchanal', Contemporary Bay Area figural
By Vanessa Stafford
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1982.
Vanessa Stafford received her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. She ...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
'Seated Nude', Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, California Post-Impressionist
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Cho...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Foam Board, Graphite
'A Snow Covered Barn', Society of Watercolor Artists, Rural Winter, California
By Gladys Louise Bowman Fies
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant winter landscape watercolor showing a view of an old wooden barn and outbuildings beside a frozen pond.
Signed lower right 'Fies S.W.A.' for Gladys Louise Bowman Fies (American, 1909-2005) and painted circa 1965.
This notable California painter was born in Texas and studied with Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt, and George Post...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Snow Covered Village', School of Paris French Post-Impressionist
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, stone lithograph landscape showing a view of rustic houses with high-peaked roofs nestled between trees and blanketed in snow, with a church and village beyond and a c...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
'Industrial Landscape'
By Wesley Wright
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Kitties at the Beach', Cristina Sayers, Contemporary California Artist
By Cristina Sayers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, "Cristina Sayers", a listed California artist, titled "Chicas at the Beach" and created in 2012.
Whimsical oil and assemblage showing three anthropomorphic cats wearing bows and swimsuits set against a whimsical beach...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil, Tissue Paper
'Dancer', Cubist Figural
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Cubist-derived exploration of tone and the human form using airbrush techniques and negative space.
Signed lower left 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
'Still Life of Flowers', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist, NY MoMA, LACMA, AIC
By Tom Lewis
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tom E. Lewis' (American, 1909-1979) and created circa 1935. Accompanied by old backing with label.
A period Modernist still-life of flowers informally arranged...
Category
1930s Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Monoprint, Paper
'Memory', American school, clapboard house, study of light, window, San Diego
By Sharon Hinckley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sharon Hinckley' (American, 20th century), a listed artist and painted circa 1975.
A period watercolor vignette of a sun-dappled clapboard house adorned with co...
Category
1960s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Tropical Breeze, Madagascar' American School watercolor
By Paul J. Samuel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant and atmospheric watercolor showing a colorfully-striped linen jacket drying in the breeze with a view through a stand of palm trees to an idyllic tropical beach and the In...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
'Aegean Dream', Oregon Watercolor Society
By Caroline Buchanan
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right and dated 1982.
An elegant figural watercolor showing a view of figures in classical greek dress contrasted against a striated polychrome background.
This signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Still Life', LACMA, SFAA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1968.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Modernist Seascape', San Diego Watercolor Society, Dallas
By Robert Landry
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Robert Landry" (American, 1921-1999) and painted circa 1965.
Watercolor seascape showing a view of a rocky inlet with sailboats on the ocean.
Robert Landry attended high school on the East Coast then went into the service during World War II. After the war, he studied art in Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis on the G.I. Bill. This led to work as a commercial illustrator for the United States Air Force Graphic Arts Division at the Pentagon, and as an art director for the Federal Aviation Agency and Convair Astronautics.
After the late 1940s, he began a serious painting career and started exhibiting fine art watercolors...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum
By Jan Hoowij
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant oil portrait of a young Arab woman shown wearing a veil and gazing with candor and interest directly towards the viewer.
Signed lower left, "Jan Hoowij" (Dutch-American, ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
