Lucy Jencks (1880-1962). California plein air landscape, Ranch Scene with Mountains in the Background (probably the San Gabriel Mountains), Circa 1940s/1950s, 20-1/4" x 24-1/4" oil on canvas (framed size: 24-1/2" x 28-1/2") signed lower right. Signature is fairly light. In a period Arts and Crafts frame.
Born in Illinois on July 20, 1880. Lucy Atwater arrived in southern California with her parents in 1890. As Lucy Jencks she was active in Laguna Beach in the 1930s. She died in Los Angeles on Dec. 27, 1962. Exh: Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, 1939.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Death record.