Bart Perry, Lake Tahoe, Circa 1960

Description

Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992)
Title: Lake Tahoe
Year: c.1960
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 17 x 22.5 … more Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992)
Title: Lake Tahoe
Year: c.1960
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 17 x 22.5 inches
paper size: 17 x 22.5 inches
Signature: Signed lower right in red pencil by the artist
Condition: Excellent, some glue residue remaining on the back at the sheet edge.

About the artist.
Bart Perry studied at the California School of Fine Arts, MFA, 1928. Fine Arts, Mills College, Berkeley, CA. 1955.
Selected Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery with Wm. Mayo, 1946; California School of Fine Arts, Roy DeForest, Relf Case, Richard Brodney and Bart Perry, (1952); San Francisco Art Association, 72nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953; Corcoran Biennial International, Washington D.C., 1976; One man Exhibitions at Camino Gallery, 1957-1964; Capricorn Gallery, 1962; Bridge Gallery, 1960-67, all New York.
A plein-air painter during his early years, he later experimented with abstraction and other modern art forms. He died in Sonoma, CA on Nov. 20, 1992. The work of this noted California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San Francisco Art Association, Oakland Museum, and is held in many collection in California and nationwide. less