Early Modern California Watercolor Painting, Attributed to John Haley

Description

Artist: Attributed to John Charles Haley – American (1905-1991)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 13.5 x … more Artist: Attributed to John Charles Haley – American (1905-1991)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 13.5 x 20.5 inches.
Framed size: 21 x 28 inches
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed. Frame in good condition.

This watercolor is attributed to the noted artist John Charles Haley. This painting has a flattened perspective, an aspect of Modernism reflecting Haley’s training with modern masters such as Hans Hoffman and Andre L'hote. The painting is in very good condition. The simple mat and frame are in good condition.

John Haley was an extremely important California artist and one of the leaders of the Berkeley art scene. Born in Minneapolis, John Haley studied at the Minneapolis School of Art in the 1920s and later with Hans Hofmann in Munich. Returning to the U. S., he taught art in Minneapolis and then moved in 1930 to California where he became Professor of Art at the University of California at Berkeley for forty-two years.

In the 1930s and 40s, he spearheaded the Berkeley school of watercolor painting and was known for his innovative use of opaque watercolors. He began exhibiting with the California Watercolor Society in 1942. However, in the mid 1950s, his style and subject matter turned from realistic Regionalist to Abstract Expression.

There is much more extensive biographical information about John Haley available online. less