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Eyvind Earle - "California Hills" - Oil on masonite - 20" x 16" - Signed and dated lower right <br> <br>Evyind Earle was an American artist, author and illustrator. His career has encompassed many different fields. During his lifetime he created many paintings, sculptures, scratchboards, watercolors and drawings. His most famous paintings are of California mountains and valleys of western Canada. He was born in New York City, began painting when he was 10 years old, had his first solo show in France when he was 14, and his fame grew steadily. <br> <br>In 1951 Earle joined Walt Disney studios as an assistant background painter. Earle intrigued Disney in 1953 when he created the look of “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom” an animated short that won an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award. Disney kept the artist busy for the rest of the decade, painting the settings for such stories as “Peter Pan”, “For Whom the Bulls Toil”, “Working for Peanuts”, “Pigs is Pigs”, “Paul Bunyan” and “Lady and the Tramp”. Earle was responsible for the styling, background and colors for the highly acclaimed movie “Sleeping Beauty” and gave the movie its magical, medieval look. He also painted the dioramas for Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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Eyvind Earle
"California Hills"
1968

Armin C. Hansen, N.A. - "Sardine Barge" - Etching - 12 7/8" x 14 5/8" - Plate: Signed & dated, lower left: Armin Hansen '22. <br>Titled in pencil lower left; signed in pencil lower right. <br> <br>In: 'The Graphic Art of Armin C. Hansen-A Catalogue Raisonne by Anthony R. White/1986; plate #43, pages 54, 55. <br> <br>THIS IS HANSEN'S SIGNATURE ETCHING - AND ICONIC COMPOSITION. <br>HIS GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN 1923 AT THE LA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BY THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR BEST PRINT IN EXHIBIT.
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Armin C. Hansen, N.A.
"Sardine Barge"
1922

Thomas A. McGlynn - "Cypress" - Oil on canvasboard - 18" x 16" - Estate signed lower left <br>Titled and signed by the artist on reverse <br>From the estate of Thomas A. McGlynn <br>Estate inventory #205 on reverse
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Thomas A. McGlynn
"Cypress"

Carl Sammons - "PG Municipal Golf Course Holes 5-6" - Oil on canvasboard - 12" x 16" - Signed lower right <br>Titled on reverse <br> <br>The Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course, the Peninsula's only municipal golf course, is often called the "poor man's Pebble Beach." It is a public 18-hole golf course owned by the city of Pacific Grove, California. <br> <br>Originally designed by Chandler Egan in 1932, the first nine holes are laid out through the forested areas of Pacific Grove. The back nine was designed by Jack Neville, original designer of the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, and overlook Point Pinos, where the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay meet on the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula. The golf links is also site of the Point Pinos Lighthouse.
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Carl Sammons
"PG Municipal Golf Course Holes 5-6"

Gunnar Widforss - "Ark in the Oakland Estuary" - Watercolor - 16" x 20" - Notarized estate provenance on reverse <br> <br>This work is recorded and illustrated in the online catalogue raisonné of Gunnar Widforss’ work by Alan Petersen as catalogue entry #616. The online catalogue raisonné is available at www.gunnarwidforss.com. <br> <br> <br> <br>In a letter to his mother, Blenda, dated December 5, 1928, Widforss referred to painting the harbor and old houses in Oakland. The improvised community of houseboats and "arks," as they were referred to, was home to artists, musicians, and bohemians in general.
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Gunnar Widforss
"Ark in the Oakland Estuary"
1928

Gunnar Widforss - "Bright Angel Trail" - Watercolor - 16" x 20" - Notarized estate provenance on reverse <br>With title plaque <br> <br>This work is recorded and illustrated in the online catalogue raisonné of Gunnar Widforss’ work by Alan Petersen as catalogue entry #420. The online catalogue raisonné is available at www.gunnarwidforss.com. <br> <br>"Although it isn't one of his "classic" Canyon paintings it is a great document of his practice of hiking in the Canyon to paint in remote locations." (excerpted from email from Alan Petersen/05/04/2022). <br> <br>"Gunnar painted it near the mouth of Bright Angel Canyon, about a mile from Phantom Ranch, near the Colorado River, looking downstream. He probably would have been near the trail, but not really on it. In the painting, the river is hidden by the diagonal slope that cuts across the view from the right (north). The Bright Angel Trail itself is just out of the view to the right, further downstream." <br> <br>"Since the painting has been known by that title (Bright Angel Trail) for some time, I think I'd stick with it. It maybe isn't the most accurate, geographically, but it's also not inaccurate. I'm going to change the title in the catalogue. (Grand Canyon: Inner Canyon). <br> <br>(excerpted from email from Alan Petersen/06/03/2022).
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Gunnar Widforss
"Bright Angel Trail"
c. 1930