SALE California Landscape Oil on Board Ruth Barnett Sturgeon ca.1935-1939

Fine Art : Original : Oil On Board : Landscape

 

A wonderful oil on board depicting a California landscape. In the left center of the painting is a red barn with a fence row leading down to the waters edge. To the left in the fore ground is a small boat tied to a pier. The green foliage of the tree line can be seen on a ridge overlooking the barn and water. In the far background you see a brightly colored rolling meadow cast against a distant blue-grey mountain range.

Artist Ruth (Barnett) Sturgeon, (1883-1940) is best known as a Kansas born artist that moved to the Pasadena,CA area in 1924 to pursue painting and teaching. She taught at South Pasadena High School as an art instructor, where she was murder while in the classroom on May 9, 1940.

Barnett-Sturgeon was a member of Western AA, a pupil of Louisa Card Carltin and George Senseney. Biographical references can be found in Edan Hughes “Artist in California, 1786-1940’’ as well as in the book by Susan Craig “Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artist (active before 1945)’’.

The image is painted on a cotton canvas panel with a size of 18’’ x 24’’. The frame appears to be the original weathered barn wood style, medium grey shades throughout. Overall size is 28 1/2 ’’ x 22 1/2’’. This piece dates to between 1935 and 1939, just prior to her death.

Item ID: PNT1