James March Phillips

Lone Cypress , Carmel Seascape, California Plein Air, Pebble Beach, Monterey

Circa 1965

Signed lower right, 'Delia' for Delia Bradford (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2005; additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Delia Bradford'. A fresh and breezy vi...

Signed lower right 'F.H. Cutting' for Francis Harvey Cutting (American, 1872-1964) and dated '1932-1948'. Born in Iowa in 1872, Francis Harvey Cutting ...

Signed lower left, 'McCullough' for Jane McCullough (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. Jane McCullough was an avid California plein air painter, exhibiting and took ar...

An early-20th-century, landscape showing a view of the coastline at Moss Beach in Monterey County with slate-blue skies overhead and a view towards a stand of windswept Monterey Cypress with a view of the cobalt blue ocean beyond. A particularly fresh and bright example, kept until recently in a portfolio. Monogrammed lower right, "EW", dated "X-mas 1909", signed verso, "Elmer Wachtel", and inscribed lower left, "Moss Beach, Monterey County, California". A prominent California landscape painter of the late 19th and early 20th-century, Elmer Wachtel specialized in panoramic coastal scenes and desert and mountain landscapes using impressionist brushstrokes. His early works were tonalist in mood, and his later paintings were more decorative and light hearted. Elmer Wachtel was an American artist who holds a high place in the early California school of Impressionism. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 21, 1864 -- he received his artistic training at the Art Students' League of New York under William Merritt Chase, and the Art School in London 1901-02. While in California he resided and maintained studios in Los Angeles and Pasadena. In 1904 Elmer Wachtel married the artist Marion Kavanaugh (1876-1954) in Chicago. Husband and wife were frequently seen painting the Southern California landscape -- they were known to have traveled by horseback over the San Marcos Pass to the Santa Inez Valley -- they traversed and painted the coastline between Gaviota and Conception Lighthouse (just north of Santa Barbara, California), the Cooper Ranch (north of Santa Barbara), Matilija Canyon and Ojai, California. Venturing south the couple made it to the San Luis Rey River (near present day Oceanside) and the Cerisa Loma Ranch (near San Diego). In 1908 they trekked to the arid deserts of Arizona and New Mexico painting...

Double-sided watercolor with a beautiful landscape of Cypress Point at sunrise, and a vertical landscape of Pt. Lobos on verso by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009)....

Monterey Cypress - California Seascape in Oil on Canvas Vibrant California coastal seascape by California artist E. Holton. Several cypress trees grow at the top of a rocky outcropp...

Mid Century Carmel Cypress Plein Air Landscape in Oil Pastel by Genevieve Rogers Two wind-sculpted Monterey cypress trees cling to rugged coastal bluff...