1940s Catalina

Post War Contemporary Art

Puget Sound

Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chase Langford
"Catalina Point" abstract of ocean, 2023

H 32 in W 54 in

Strange Lovers (The Hard Marriage)

Located in Palm Desert, CA

dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern

Category

Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Color Pencil

NORMAN, IRVING
Strange Lovers (The Hard Marriage), c. 1940's

H 22.75 in W 29 in D 1 in

Untitled

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Franco dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the

Category

Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Irving Norman
Untitled, Circa 1970

H 38.75 in W 17.25 in

Untitled (Possible Study for "From Work")

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast

Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Irving Norman
Untitled (Possible Study for "From Work"), 20th century

H 11 in W 14 in

Wine Bottle

Located in Palm Desert, CA

1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Graphite

NORMAN, IRVING
Wine Bottle, 1945

H 18.875 in W 11.625 in

Night Life 2

Located in Palm Desert, CA

1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

NORMAN, IRVING
Night Life 2, 1943

H 22 in W 28 in

Shrapnel

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities

Category

20th Century Post-War Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

NORMAN, IRVING
Shrapnel, 1906-1989

H 29.75 in W 20 in

Related Figures

Located in Palm Desert, CA

survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast

Category

20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen

NORMAN, IRVING
Related Figures, Unknown

H 39.875 in W 29.875 in D 1 in

Totems

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Norman
Totems, 1972

H 72 in W 110 in

Women Welders, The Ship

Located in Palm Desert, CA

War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

NORMAN, IRVING
Women Welders, The Ship, 1943

H 14.25 in W 28.375 in

Striptease

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Color Pencil

Irving Norman
Striptease, c. 1945

H 30 in W 20 in

War Wounded

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Norman
War Wounded, 1960

H 70 in W 60 in

To the Unknown

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Norman
To the Unknown, 1977

H 96 in W 72 in

Supreme Justice

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Irving Norman
Supreme Justice, 1974

H 100 in W 76 in

Totem of a Holy Family

Located in Palm Desert, CA

War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

NORMAN, IRVING
Totem of a Holy Family, 1974

H 90 in W 19.75 in D 2 in

Big City

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

fascist Franco dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Irving Norman
Big City, 1948 - 1949

H 80 in W 29 in

My World and Yours

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

fascist Franco dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

Irving Norman
My World and Yours, 1954

H 74 in W 28 in

Bacchanal

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

fascist Franco dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Norman
Bacchanal, 1954

H 69.5 in W 39.5 in

American Street Scene

By Irving Norman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Irving Norman
American Street Scene, 1961

H 74 in W 90 in

San Pedro Harbor

By Paul Sample

Located in New York, NY

, leading directly to a hiatus from Dartmouth. In 1918 and 1919, Sample served in the U.S. Merchant Marine

Category

20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paul Sample
San Pedro Harbor , 1937

H 30 in W 40 in

Kingfisher

By Les Perhacs

Located in Santa Fe, NM

kingfisher bird sculpture medium is catalina schist, Southern California, metasomatized schist

Category

2010s Figurative Sculptures

Les Perhacs
Kingfisher, 2012

H 8 in W 16 in D 6 in

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