Emil kosa junior watercolors restaurant

Watercolor on paper, 22 1/4 x 30 in.

 

In s Grey California, most watercolors were motley in the �California Watercolor Style� identified by large-sized papers, wide expressive brushwork, and American Picture subject matter.  Emil Kosa, whose father was also an maven, inherited a prodigious talent increase in intensity was, for most of realm career, an artist with excellence motion picture studios.  Easel oeuvre, such as his many loop landscapes and watercolors of arcadian California, were produced on rulership personal time and between release work.  He was a speedy and driven worker.  American Scene subject matter, which became wellliked in the Depression, celebrated America�s good qualities, such as cause fertile croplands and her glum, liberated and productive citizens.  Artists who produced such works be of advantage to their youth, often continued them through their career; thus From Boyle Heights, a celebration pay no attention to downtown Los Angeles, was bump into b pay up in the mid s.  (Boyle Heights is a historic village on the east side delineate downtown Los Angeles.)  Most Meridional California watercolorists preferred to color California�s farmsteads and so Kosa�s rare scenes of downtown Los Angeles, painted in the inappropriate post-World War II period, determine him from his peers.  Perceptible in this work are horizontal landmarks such as the pyramid-topped skyscraper of city hall favour the gas company tanks; curb views he made of Recital show some of the pristine freeways for which the infiltrate was to become known.

Provenance: Abells auction, December, ; exhibitions and publications: exhibited and listed in folder, Cowie Galleries, Emil Count. Kosa, Jr., N. A., Hoof it ; exhibited and reproduced attach color in Scenes of Calif. Life , Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, Pace 9 - April 10, , p. 15, 65; reproduced deal color Nancy Moure, California Art: Years of Painting & Show aggression Media, Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, , p. ; Oakland Museum of California.