Description: LARGE AND OUTSTANDING ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY ESTEEMED CALIFORNIA PAINTER GERTRUDE O’MOORE. (CIRCA 1938). THIS WORK IS TITLED: CABIN ON BUBBS CREEK: IT DEPICTS AN ENCHANTING PICTURESQUE VIEW OF BUBBS CREEK, LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA'S SIERRA NEVADA. COMPRISED OF TALL, TOWERING SEQUOIA TREES SURROUNDING A SMALL CABIN WITH SNOW TOP MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND. THE DETAILS IN THIS PAINTING ARE SPOT-ON AND AMAZING. SIGNED BY O’MOORE AND DATED 1938 ON THE VERSO. GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. MILD SCRATCHES TO THE FRAME. DIMENSIONS: 42” H x 32” W Gertrude O'Moore (20th century) was active/lived in California. Gertrude OMoore is known for landscape and Portrait painting, illustration and art teaching. Gertrude O'Moore O’Moore was portrait painter, illustrator and art teacher; she was a well-known artist in Bakersfield, California. Active during the halcyon days of American illustration art, she was well respected and liked for her works embracing the ideal American life. The local paper in 1940 stated that O’Moore paintings were selling at $125. (At that time the median salary was $1900 / year) In November of 1943 Bakersfield California observed National Art Week with an exhibit of paintings, photography and silk-screen works by various artist including paintings by O’Moore, this was held at the El Tejon Hotel. In 1944 O’Moore exhibited twenty paintings at Hotel El Tejon in Bakersfield, California, showing a variety of subjects including western scenes, landscapes and portraits. She painted a portrait of Will Rogers that hung in Cawelo, California. Also in that year she exhibited her works to the public at her home according to an announcement in the Bakersfield Californian newspaper, in her home she also held classes and lectures on art. In 1950, under her married name Gertrude O’Moore Whitt, she exhibited a series of religious paintings in Corona, California. At this time she was living with her husband Grover and her son on Erskine Creek in the Kern River Valley. The painting “The Kite Maker” is listed in achieves of the Library of Congress as presented on June 5, 1941. Later that year the painting was exhibited in the window of Minner’s Furniture Store on Baker Street in Bakersfield.
Price: 1800 USD
Location: Pasadena, California
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Artist: Gertrude O’Moore
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: O’Moore
Size: Large
Item Length: 34 in
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Personalize: Yes
Year of Production: 1938
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 42 in
Style: Impressionism
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Item Width: 34 in
Culture: California Impressionist
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
Signed: Yes
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Title: Cabin On Bubbs Creek
Material: Canvas
Subject: Landscape
Type: Painting
Theme: California Bubbs Creek Landscape
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
