Noel Daggett Impressionist City Beach San Francisco Bay Area Watercolor Landscape 1959

Description

Watercolor painting of a city beach, done in the style of the California School of watercolor, attributed to Noel Daggett … more Watercolor painting of a city beach, done in the style of the California School of watercolor, attributed to Noel Daggett (American, 20th century). Signed by the artist lower left corner "N. Daggett." Presented in a rustic, period wood frame with linen liner. Several light age spots on linen liner. Shipped without glass. Image, 18"H x 24"W.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Noel Daggett early became known for his neo-impressionist quadrille paintings likened to mosaic compositions or lattice work. Later he did more traditional style paintings of western genre and landscape.

At an early age, he moved to California with his parents, and won a scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. During World War II, he was a Merchant Marine in the South Pacific and then took odd jobs in California including truck driver and fender repair man. He moved to Chicago and studied at the Chicago Art Institute and also studied privately with Leonard Rodowicz.

In 1953, he was drafted into the Korean War and then was in military service in Germany doing illustration for Army bulletins. After discharge, he remained three years in Heidelberg as a civilian illustrator. In 1958, he decided to become a professional illustrator and studied advertising in Los Angeles at the Art Center School. However, after one year, he switched to fine art, and after six semesters went to New York where he won a scholarship to the New School and studied with Raphael Soyer. He also had a one-man show in Paris at the Galerie Ror Volmar in 1962.

In New York in the 1960s, he had his work well received and earned honors included the Emily Lowe Award and the Harold Stevenson Gold Medal of the American Veterans Society of Artists. His studio was on the top floor of a thirty-story building close to Times Square with a skylight and panoramic view of the city.

His paintings come from a variety of sources from landscapes to figures, and he has also done mural decorations including for the New York restaurant Henry IV. In his later years, he established a studio in Tucson, Arizona from where he traveled extensively throughout the country. Covered bridges were one of the themes of his landscape paintings. less