Hilda Van Zandt Antique California Landscape Oil Painting Old Modern Abstract 50

  
AMAZING AND WONDERFUL ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY ESTEEMED CALIFORNIA PAINTER HILDA MUTTON VAN ZANDT. THIS WORK DEPICTS A CAPTIVATING CALIFORNIA DESERT SCENE COMPRISED OF A VAST EXPANSE OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS ADORNED WITH BRUNT ORANGE AND BLUE HUES CAPTURING THE WARM, ARID AMBIENCE OF THE CALIFORNIA ROCKY MOUNTAINS. BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED WITH REFINED TEXTURED BRUSHSTROKES EMPLOYING A RICH COLOR PALETTE AND EARTHY TONES. THIS IS A REMARKABLE OLD PAINTING WITH A MODERNIST TWIST.

SIGNED BY HILDA VAN ZANDT. IT DATES AROUND THE 1950s. MILD SCRATCHES TO THE FRAME. DIMENSIONS: 29" H x 35" W. Born: 1892 - Henry, Illinois.

Died: 1965 - Long Beach, California. Known for: Western landscape painting, teaching. She was born in Henry, IL, on June 18, 1892. Hilda Mutton studied at UCLA (1916) and married Jerome Van Zandt in 1922.

After settling in San Pedro, she taught at Fremont High School in Los Angeles. She traveled widely and obtained much of her subject matter from exotic places in South America, Africa, and Spain. Van Zandt died in Long Beach, CA, on July 31, 1965.

Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1916; Calif. Art Club, 1919-30; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1920; Calif.

WC Society, 1926-36; LACMA, 1928 (solo); Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1929; Bartlett Gallery (LA), 1932; Oakland Art Gallery, 1934. In: Baldwin Park (CA) Women's Club. California State Library (Sacramento); Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Women Artists of the American West; American Art Annual 1919-33; Who's Who in American Art 1936-41; California Arts and Architecture list, 1932.