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Emil Jean Kosa Jr.
My Back Yard20th century

Not on view
Horizontal watercolor landscape of white clapboard houses and a yellow barn with rust-red roof along a curved dirt road, loose washes of brown and tan in the foreground, lavender-gray sky above

Emil Jean Kosa Jr., Emil Kosa Sr., My Back Yard, 20th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Art Week, Gift of Alexander Cowie, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Emil Jean Kosa Jr.
France, Paris, active United States, 1903-1968
Artist or Maker
Emil Kosa Sr.
active United States, California, 1876-1955
Title
My Back Yard
Place Made
United States
Date Made
20th century
Medium
Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 × 22 in. (43.18 × 55.88 cm) Image: 16 7/8 × 22 in. (42.86 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
National Art Week, Gift of Alexander Cowie
Accession Number
42.3.2
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected 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.