New Acquisitions

Mary DeNeale Morgan - "Cypress on the Coast" - Oil on board - 7" x 10 3/4" - Estate signed lower left <br>Direcetly from the estate of M. DeNeale Morgan <br> <br>Once asked if she didn't tire of painting trees, Morgan answered that "she would stick by her cypress trees till they sink into the sea, or - what is just as tragic and final - be hopelessly built round." Only four days before her death, she was at Point Lobos painting a cypress…a landscape painter till the end! <br> <br>Morgan died in Carmel, California leaving a great legacy to California art as a teacher, organizer, and painter. Working in pastel, tempera, oil, and watercolor, she painted sand dunes, wharf scenes, adobes, landscapes, and the wind-swept cypresses of the Monterey Peninsula.
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Mary DeNeale Morgan
"Cypress on the Coast"
c. 1930

John O'Shea - "Seascape and Rocks, Point Lobos" - Oil on canvas - 30" x 36" - Signed lower left <br> <br> <br>"Seascape and Rocks - Point Lobos" is a forcefully executed canvas representing the best of his early work off the coast near Carmel. O'Shea employs loaded brushwork, deep saturated colors, and bold rhythmic patterns to create a work reminiscent of the powerful canvases of his peers - George Bellows, Armin Hansen and William Ritschel. <br> <br>This painting is a rare early work by O'Shea, one of Carmel's most distinguished artists. View of Point Lobos, of exhibition size, and the finest O’Shea we have owned and one of the best he has ever painted of the California coast.
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John O'Shea
"Seascape and Rocks, Point Lobos"
c. 1921

Karl Schmidt - "Cabin at Dusk" - California - Oil on board - 30" x 72" - Signed and dated lower left <br>Artist signed on reverse <br>Artist's hand-carved arts & crafts frame with name plaque <br> <br>Partial Maxwell Galleries label on reverse <br> <br>Karl Schmidt was a leading proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. Traveling to England from his native city in Worcester, MA he likely came under the influence of the arts and crafts painter Frank Brangwyn; and later the teachings of Arthur Wesley Dow. <br> <br>In 1915 he moved to Santa Barbara joining a group of painters in the mission-style studio of California artist, Alexander Harmer. His paintings were displayed at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (PPIE), 1915. He further exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, and the Cincinnati Museum of Art, among many other venues.
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Karl Schmidt
"Cabin at Dusk" - California
1919

Will Sparks - "Moonlit Adobe" - Oil on canvas - 20" x 28" - Signed and dated lower left <br>Dated August 1927 on reverse stretcher <br>Retains original frame <br> <br>Exhibited: <br>Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery/UC Santa Cruz at Porter College <br>'Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto', April 12 to May 12, 2018. <br>An exhibition celebrating the life of Mary Porter Sesnon (1868-1930) and her influences on the arts in Santa Cruz County, originating with her historic home, Pino Alto, where they hosted cultural salons from 1911 to 1927. <br> <br>The exhibition contained many sketches and watercolors from a scrapbook made during these salons, calligraphy by Ms. Sesnon, along with paintings by California artists Will Sparks, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Haig Patigian, Frank Unger, Charles Dickman, Margaret Rogers, Leonora Penniman, and Cor de Gavere.
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Will Sparks
"Moonlit Adobe"
August 25, 1927

Will Sparks - "Moonlit Landscape" - Oil on canvas/board - 5" x 8 3/4" - Signed lower right <br> <br>Painter, etcher, and muralist. Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists. He is best remembered for his paintings of the early Missions, and moonlit nocturne scenes.
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Will Sparks
"Moonlit Landscape"

S.C. Yuan - "Floral Still Life" - Oil on masonite - 10" x 10" - Signed lower right <br>Exhibition label on reverse - Carmel Art Association/1974 <br>Retains Yuan's original shadow box frame <br>Price of $85.00 and signed by Yuan in red on inner frame. <br> <br>PROVENANCE: <br>We purchased "Floral Still Life" directly from a respected artist/member of the Carmel Art Association who purchased it at the CAA's September 1974 exhibition of the works of S.C. Yuan. <br> <br>In September 1974 Yuan installed his last show at the Carmel Art Association. Two days later he tragically committed suicide. After three days of shock and mourning, his fellow artists bought out the entire exhibition.
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S.C. Yuan
"Floral Still Life"
06/74