Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- the Roadside Grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath

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Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower … more Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H x 24"L.

Edda Heath studied at the New York School of Art, Pratt Institute, Adelphi College, and privately with William M. Chase, Arthur Dove, Robert Henri, and Frank DuMond. While in New York she painted political portraits of Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1928 she moved to Carmel, California where she became active in the local art scene. Her married name was Pappel at the time of her death in Salinas, California on Nov. 6, 1972. Her oils and watercolors include seascapes, still lifes of fruit and flowers, and landscapes of the redwoods and the Monterey Peninsula. less