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Loren Roberta Barton
Sunny Day at Balboacirca 1945

Not on view
Oil painting of a beach scene with a large coral-and-orange fringed umbrella, figures in swimsuits on golden sand, and sailboats on blue water in the distance
Artist or Maker
Loren Roberta Barton
United States, Massachusetts, Oxford, 1893-1975
Title
Sunny Day at Balboa
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1945
Medium
Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions
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)
Credit Line
The California Water Color Society Collection of Water Color Paintings
Accession Number
55.34.17
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Curatorial 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 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.
Selected Bibliography

  • 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.

  • 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.