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A really dreamy landscape by a beloved and pioneering Los Angeles artist.
Measures 18" x 24", framed 24 3/4" x …
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A really dreamy landscape by a beloved and pioneering Los Angeles artist.
Measures 18" x 24", framed 24 3/4" x 31".
Biography Hernando Villa
Born in Los Angeles, CA on Oct. 1, 1881, the son of Esiquia and Miguel de Villa. His parents came to Los Angeles from Baja California in 1846 when the area was still part of Mexico. Raised in an artistic milieu, his mother was an amateur singer and his father an artist with a studio on the Plaza. Villa studied locally under Louise Garden-MacLeod at the School of Art & Design in 1905, and later taught there after studying for one year in England and Germany. He established a studio in Los Angeles and worked as a commercial artist and illustrator for the Santa Fe Railroad for 40 years. He died in Los Angeles on May 7, 1952. Equally facile with oil, watercolor, pastel, and charcoal, he produced scenes of the Old West, Indians, missions,
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Artists of the American West (Samuels); Calif. Design, 1910.
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- Dimensions
- 24.75ʺW × 3ʺD × 31ʺH
- Styles
- Figurative
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Masonite Board
- Mixed-Media
- Oil Paint
- Oil Pastel
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- The work is very well preserved and the frame is new, the board not yet mounted into it. The work is very well preserved and the frame is new, the board not yet mounted into it. less
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