Marshall Everett Merritt

"Autumn Moon", Mid Century Monterey Coast Horizontal Nocturnal Seascape

c.1960s

Industrial Landscape with Trees in Oil on Linen Bold industrial landscape by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). A large red building with a water tank and silos above a tree studded road dominates the landscape. The sky is blue-grey and filled with puffy clouds. Signed "Lyons" in the lower right corner and on verso. Canvas size: 24"H x 30"W No frame. Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014) was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, on Oct. 8, 1927, on her grandparents' farm. She was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended college at the University of Chattanooga, (now UTC) where she received honors in ar. At U.C. she met her husband Jack Hoover, and the couple moved to Palo Alto in 1954. Doris Hoover became a nationally known fabric artist, teacher, lecturer and co-founder of the Peninsula Stitchery Guild, a leading organization in the Bay Area Crafts Movement of the 1970s. Her beautiful, often playful quilts, soft sculptures and creative stitchings grace homes...

Factories - Industrial Landscape in Oil on Linen Bold industrial landscape by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). A large red building sits at the left edge of the composition with a grey building across the composition to the right. Three smokestacks let of smoke or steam, surrounded by piping and tanks running throughout the scene. Signed "Lyons" in the lower right corner and on verso. Canvas size: 24"H x 30"W No frame. Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014) was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, on Oct. 8, 1927, on her grandparents' farm. She was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended college at the University of Chattanooga, (now UTC) where she received honors in ar. At U.C. she met her husband Jack Hoover, and the couple moved to Palo Alto in 1954. Doris Hoover became a nationally known fabric artist, teacher, lecturer and co-founder of the Peninsula Stitchery Guild, a leading organization in the Bay Area Crafts Movement of the 1970s. Her beautiful, often playful quilts, soft sculptures and creative stitchings grace homes...

Santa Cruz Forest and Carbonero Creek with Redwoods in the early morning by Lillian Josephine Heath (American, 1864-1961). Oil on linen. Signed "Lillian J. Heath" lower left. Circa 1...

Old 17 Mile Drive, Carmel California Landscape Early 1900s Oil on Linen Gorgeous early 20th century landscape of rugged Carmel Old 17 Mile Drive coastline by Frank Lucien Heath...