Los Angeles, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 24.5ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 20.5ʺH
- Styles
- Impressionist
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Canvas
- Cardboard
- Oil Paint
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- Very good vintage condition. Very good vintage condition. less
- Description
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Artist: Ralph Holmes
Age: 1900 - 1950
Medium: Oil on Board
Unframed Dimensions: Sight - 16" x 20"
Overall Dimensions: … more Artist: Ralph Holmes
Age: 1900 - 1950
Medium: Oil on Board
Unframed Dimensions: Sight - 16" x 20"
Overall Dimensions: Frame - 20 1/2" x 24 1/2"
Ralph Holmes - Early 20th Century California Impressionist Oil on Board Plein Air Landscape Painting. Unsigned. Note: Like many of the artist's paintings this one is unsigned but is known to be authentic because of its provenance.
Provenance: Purchased from the artist's estate liquidation auction in the mid 1990's at Butterfield's & Butterfield's Auction (now part of Bonham's).
Comments on This Artist: Ralph Holmes (American 1876 – 1960). Ralph Holmes was a very prolific painter. Born in La Grange, Illinois, he studied at Northwestern University, the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in Paris. Later he served on the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago and was the Chair of the Department of Painting and Decorating at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He was a mural painter in Pittsburgh and New York, was known as a writer, and after moving to California he had a long teaching and painting career there. He taught at the Otis Art Institute from 1923 to 1948 and served as art editor and writer for E.G. Lewis's Illustrated Review. He was a four-term President of the California Art Club, was president of "Art in National Defense", and a member of the Academy of Western Painters. For twenty-five years he was also art instructor at the Marlborough School for girls. He died in San Luis Obispo in 1963. less
Los Angeles, CA
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