Sunny Day at Balboa

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Sunny Day at Balboa

United States, circa 1945
Drawings
Watercolor and graphite
Sheet: 27 1/8 × 34 3/4 in. (68.9 × 88.27 cm) Image: 25 1/8 × 33 3/4 in. (63.82 × 85.73 cm)
The California Water Color Society Collection of Water Color Paintings (55.34.17)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

By using vivid blues and purples and exposing large areas of white paper, in Sunny Day at Balboa Barton conveys a typical California scene of bathers relaxing at the beach in the blazing sun and fresh...
By using vivid blues and purples and exposing large areas of white paper, in Sunny Day at Balboa Barton conveys a typical California scene of bathers relaxing at the beach in the blazing sun and fresh air. In this painting her vigorous brushwork-which has been compared with that of Edouard Manet (1832-1883) in its directness-was applied dryly, and the strokes appear almost opaque.
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Bibliography

  • Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick.  American Art:  a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez.  Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley:  University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

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