Pauline Polk -Still Life of Red & Yellow Flowers in a Blue Vase- Painting

Description

Pauline Polk

-Still Life of Red & Yellow Flowers in a Blue Vase- Painting

Watercolor Painting on Paper -Signed
underglass … more Pauline Polk

-Still Life of Red & Yellow Flowers in a Blue Vase- Painting

Watercolor Painting on Paper -Signed
underglass - circa 1960s

frame size 29 x 37"
paper size 21 x 29"

Artist Biography
(1896 - 1986)
Pauline Stone Polk was active/lived in New Jersey, California. Pauline Polk is known for floral, landscape, mural, mosaic.Born in New York City on June 27, 1896, Pauline Stone grew up on the East Coast and married about 1917. After traveling to Europe, she began spending summers in southern California in 1932 and bought a house there in 1937. For several years she worked on mosaics for Millard Sheets at his Claremont studio. She was vice president of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Commission and active in the local art scene. Mrs. Polk died in Pomona, CA on Feb. 25, 1986. Working in a large format, she used transparent watercolors with a wet-into-wet technique. She is best known for her floral still lives. less