1958 Original Tom Van Sant California Landscape Painting, Signed and Dated

Description

This rare California scene by acclaimed artist Tom Van Sant, painted in oil or gouache on board, is a true … more This rare California scene by acclaimed artist Tom Van Sant, painted in oil or gouache on board, is a true find and collector's dream.

Rich washes of blue, green, rust and ochre depict the hills of Southern California, with a line of trees in the distance. The hand of the artist is delightfully evident in the brushstrokes and visible pencil draft lines. Recently re-framed (new frame and backing) and ready for hanging.

About the Artist:
Tom Van Sant (b.1931) is a California sculptor, painter, and conceptual artist. In his professional work he has executed 77 major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world. These include the international airports of Honolulu, Taipei and LAX, as well as the civic centers of Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Inglewood, and corporate centers in Taiwan, Manila, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Honolulu and  San Francisco.

In Orange County, you may know his work from the Dolphin Mural at Hoag Hospital or the Korea Memorial in Long Beach.

He graduated from Stanford, he attended Otis Art Institute of LA, graduating with an MFA.   He had a long association with architect William Pereira  and his work has adorned over a dozen Pereira buildings. 

Van Sant has had fifteen one-man exhibits in the United States, Europe and Australia. His art is represented in public and private collections throughout the world.

Van Sant's professional skills and intellectual interests range to architectural design, city planning, art education and advanced technical invention. His large scale conceptual art projects of the 1980s led to the creation of The GeoSphere Project, an ambitious environmental display system designed to illustrate the issues of Earth resource management.

The GeoSphere Image marks a milestone in cartographic history. It is the first satellite map of the Earth, showing the real world it appears from space. The work required one year of effort on the world's most powerful graphics computers by Van Sant, technical director Van Warren of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assisted by Jim Knighton and Leo Blume. The image was first published as the title page of the National Geographic World Atlas.
In 1992, Mr. Van Sant created an installation called "the Earth Situation Room", an interactive project which feature visualizations of earth systems and changes. This project was first shown at ECO-92, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Al Gore cited Mr. Van Sant for his beautiful and useful 3d image of the Earth in the film “An Inconvenient Truth.” less