SAMUEL BOLTON COLBURN(1909-1993)

A substantial installation, including material from Sam Colburn’s original Asilomar rustic studio/home, is currently on view at the Trotter Galleries Pacific Grove location at 301-303 Forest Avenue. This is the most comprehensive exhibition on Colburn’s work available to the public and covers many aspects of the artist’s life and art, especially focusing on the “Steinbeck era” of the 1930’s and ‘40s.

Samuel Bolton Colburn (1909-1993)

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Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Country Church" - Watercolor - 13 3/4" x 21 1/2" - Signed lower right <br>Double-sided: Abandoned Mining Town
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Country Church"
c. 1938

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Farm Houses" - Watercolor - 13" x 19" - Signed and dated lower left
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Farm Houses"
1938

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Farmer with Horse" - Watercolor - 21" x 14" - Signed lower right <br>Double-sided: Pheiffer's Beach - 1955 <br>Signed and dated lower right
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Farmer with Horse"
c. 1940

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Fish Ranch" - Watercolor - 11 3/4" x 15 1/2" - Signed and dated lower right <br>Titled on reverse
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Fish Ranch"
1937

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Fishermen 'Confab' on the Wharf" - Oil on canvas - 12" x 16" - Signed and dated lower right <br> <br>Although known for his watercolors, pastels and charcoals, he excelled in oil - a rarely painted medium by the artist.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Fishermen 'Confab' on the Wharf"
1940

East coast scene in watercolor depicting four small boats in the harbor; with five structures of various sizes on stilts; with two houses in the near distance in a grove of trees.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Grey Boats"
c. 1942

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Happy Farmer" - Watercolor - 14" x 20" - Signed lower right <br> <br> <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, page 22.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Happy Farmer"
1940

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Hatton Ranch" - Carmel Valley - Oil on masonite - 16" x 43 1/2" - Signed lower right <br> <br>A masterwork of one of Colburn's early and rare oil paintings both in composition and color, and of exceptional size.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Hatton Ranch" - Carmel Valley
c. 1949

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Hauling the Nets" - Watercolor - 12 1/2" x 13 1/4" - Signed and dated lower right <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, page 11.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Hauling the Nets"
1939

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Hillside Farm with Water Tank" - Watercolor - 20 1/2" x 14" - Signed lower left <br>Double-sided: Cacti - 1944 <br>Signed and dated lower left <br> <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, FRONT COVER
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Hillside Farm with Water Tank"
c. 1940

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Hillside Houses" - Watercolor - 10 1/2" x 16 1/4" - Signed and dated lower right <br>Double-sided: Rocks and Water (unsigned) <br> <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, page 16.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Hillside Houses"
1942

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Horse at the Ranch" - Watercolor - 8" x 9 1/2" - Signed and dated lower right <br> <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, page 13.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Horse at the Ranch"
1941

A large vat dominates this watercolor - on the wharf in Monterey - five fishermen are hard at work filling the vat with the nets used to catch the fish.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"In the Vat" - Monterey
c.1940

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Lonesome House" - Watercolor - 15" x 21" - Signed and dated lower right
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Lonesome House"
1937

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Mexican Street Singers" - Watercolor - 10 1/2" x 11 1/2" - Signed and dated lower left <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Spring Catalogue-2019, page 30.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Mexican Street Singers"
1939

A landscape scene with colorful mountains and also with several miners cabins.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Mining Town"
1942

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Net Menders" - Monterey Bay - Watercolor - 13 1/2" x 21" - Signed and dated lower right <br>Double sided: Sea and Land <br> <br>Sam Colburn gained his substantial reputation as a watercolorist and for his early paintings of the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California. He depicted the fisherman and activities around the wharf and in the canneries, and the hills and farm buildings around Salinas and Carmel Valley. His early figural works of Monterey fisherman at work in the sardine canneries made famous by John Steinbeck, reduce the figures to blocky forms in the manner of Diego Rivera. <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, page 3.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Net Menders" - Monterey Bay
1938

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "On the Wharf" - Watercolor - 13" x 19 1/4" - Signed and dated bottom center <br>Double sided: Hatton Ranch, Carmel Valley <br> <br>Sam Colburn gained his substantial reputation as a watercolorist and for his early paintings of the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California. He depicted the fisherman and activities around the wharf and in the canneries, and the hills and farm buildings around Salinas and Carmel Valley. His early figural works of Monterey fisherman at work in the sardine canneries made famous by John Steinbeck, reduce the figures to blocky forms in the manner of Diego Rivera.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"On the Wharf"
1941

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Railway Station and Storage Tanks" - Watercolor - 15" x 21" - Signed lower right <br>Double sided: Coastal Seascape
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Railway Station and Storage Tanks"
c. 1937

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Resting on the Pilings" - Watercolor - 12 1/2" x 11 1/2" - Signed lower right
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Resting on the Pilings"
c.1941

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Still Life with Fruit" - Watercolor - 14 1/4" x 20" - Signed lower right <br>Double-sided: Houses and Cypress <br> <br> <br>Reproduced in OLLI@CSUMB/Fall Catalogue-2022, BACK COVER
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Still Life with Fruit"
c. 1942

A quiet composition begins with rowboats docked by the pier in the foreground, a fishing boat docked near the pier on the left. The rest of the composition are the tanks used and a rooftop view of the canneries in the background.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Tanks at the Canneries"
c.1941

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Three Fishermen on the Wharf" - Oil on masonite - 19 1/2" x 21" - Signed and dated lower right: Sam Colburn '71 <br> <br> <br>Although Colburn was known for his watercolors, pastels and charcoals, he excelled in oil - a rarely painted medium by the artist.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Three Fishermen on the Wharf"
1971

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Valley Barn" - Watercolor - 11 3/4" x 15 1/2" - Signed and dated lower center <br>Titled on reverse
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Valley Barn"
1937

Samuel Bolton Colburn - "Valley Farm Houses - Afternoon Light" - Watercolor - 15 1/2" x 22" - Signed and dated lower left <br>Double-sided: Trees and Hills -1938 <br>Signed and dated lower right
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Valley Farm Houses - Afternoon Light"
1938

A landscape scene beginning with a tree in the foreground, a winding road pasing houses, and a water tower taking you up to the final destination - a house on the hilltop.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Water Tower and Houses"
1942

Three fishermen dominate this scene - they are on the deck of a fishing boat and are working the nets in perfect harmony. Another fishing boat can be seen in the far distance.
Samuel Bolton Colburn
"Working the Nets"
1938