James March Phillips

Monterey Breakers , San Francisco, Pebble Beach, Carmel, Turner Art Academy

Circa 1965

Signed lower right, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965. Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Turner Art Ac...

Signed lower right 'Jack Laycox' (American, 1921-1984); additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Gulls Near Carmel' and dated 1968. An exceptionally fine and atmospheric study of stor...

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...

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...

Rocky California Seascape in Watercolor on Paper Dramatic coastal landscape by notable artist Paul Dougherty (American, 1877-1947). Waves are churning ...

Beautiful diminutive landscape painting of the rocky outcroppings and deep blue water typical of the Monterey County coast by Kathleen Murray (Am...

Classic mid-century watercolor seascape of the incoming tide, waves crashing on rocks by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century), c. 1940s-1950s. Painted on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. No frame. Unfinished work...

Vibrant landscape painting of a cove in Carmel Beach looking towards Pebble Beach by James Riley Stevenson (American, 1911-1990). Signed lower left "James Stevenson." Unframed. Image...