"Anchorage"
Description
Esther Smee (20th Century)
Size: 24" X 20"
Oil on Canvas
Signed, lower right, Eshter Smee
Price $1600
An exceptional California Impressionist harbor scene by listed artist, Esther Smee. The painting is in excellent condition with no repairs or in-painting. The painting has been recently professionally cleaned and newly framed. The painting is signed, lower right and also bears a label on the back stretcher bar with the title, "Anchorage" and identifying the artist as Esther Smee.
Incredibly, there is little information about this superb artist in the usual reference books, especially considering the quality of this work . Only that she was a resident of Long Beach in the 1930's, a member of the Laguna Beach AA, and exhibited with the California Art Club, 1937 and 1938. None-the-less, her lively impressionist brushwork and pallet, flickering reflection of light on the water, accomplished draftsmanship and superb rendering of perspective, all point to the hand of a top notch artist.
