The First Overcast

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The First Overcast

United States, before 1945
Drawings
Watercolor and graphite on drawing board
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (24.45 × 65.41 cm) Image: 19 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (49.85 × 65.41 cm)
The California Watercolor Society Collection of Watercolor Paintings (55.34.20)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Emil Jean Kosa, Jr., contributed to the formation of a California watercolor style that gained national recognition during the 1930s....
Emil Jean Kosa, Jr., contributed to the formation of a California watercolor style that gained national recognition during the 1930s. Kosa preferred the wet-into-wet technique, applying pigment to his large sheets in broad strokes. Many of his prizewinning watercolors were of the Southern California countryside, as is The First Overcast. A master of shadowy effect, Kosa captures the moment before a storm by softening the forms and limiting the palette mostly to grays and olive greens. His fluid manner gives breadth and power to the expansive landscape.
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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.