Original watercolor on paper by Donald Bear of landscape with trees.  Bear (1905-1952) was a noted Colorado then Califonia artist and museum director.  Born in Terra Haute, Indiana, he moved with his family to Denver in 1918 and eventually on to Santa Barbara, California in 1940.

EDUCATION:  studies in Denver with John Thompson

MEMBERSHIPS:  American Federation of Arts; Denver Artists Guild (founding member, 1928); National Association of Museum Directors; Western Association of Museum Directors (president, 1943-46; vice-president, 1946-52); American Society for Aesthetics

POSITIONS:  director, Denver Art Museum, 1935-40; regional advisor, Federal Arts Project 1938; art researcher, Encyclopedia Britannica; founding director, Santa Barbara Museum  of Art; teaching, University of California Santa Babara; art critic, Santa Barbara News Press

AUTHOR:  "Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States", 1941; "Prelude", 1943; "Santos, A Primitive American Art: Collection of Jan Keljkamp and Ellis Monroe", 1946; introduction to the "Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico", 1938; essays for exhibition catalogues on Russell Cowles, Ernest Fiene and Peppino Mangravite

EXHIBITIONS:  fifteen one-man shows

COLLECTIONS:  Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art, Denver

Size of this fascinating painting is 11 3/4 x 17 1/4.  Signed and dated 1950 lower right.  A stylized, superbly rendered work.  

Very good condition.  Shipped matted, ready for framing.  

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