Old Los Angeles (Los Angeles City Street Scene)
Emil Kosa, Jr., American, 1903 - 1968
about 1939
Transparent watercolor over charcoal indications on very heavy wove [Arches] paper
Overall: 21 11/16 × 29 1/16 in. (55.1 × 73.8 cm)
Frame: 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip H. Greene, in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie B. Greene
2007.6.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: Emil Kosa Jr.; inscribed in ballpoint ink on reverse: Old Los Angeles ? by Emil Kosa CW?3892; inscribed, in pencil, on reverse: W / 412 [circled] / photographed; printed in red ink on brown gummed tape along top edge: FAIRFAX 9195 / 2944 W. Seventh St. / Los Angeles 5, Cal. [most likely manufacturer or retailer of tape] WATERMARK: embossed, lower right, in oval: VERITABLE PAPIER D'ARCHES TORCHON
Exhibition History
Adventures in Aquarelle: The California Style in Review, Cunningham Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, Sep. 7- Oct. 26 1989, brochure by Philip H. Greene and the Cunningham Art Gallery, printed by Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation, 1989.
California-style Watercolorists and the Golden Age of Hollywood: 1930-1950, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September- November 9, 2010.
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Regionalism: The California View (Watercolors 1929-1945), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 25- August 14, 1988.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 25, fig. 4, p. 44, no. 6.
Paul J. Karlstrom, The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, American Art Review, Volume XX, Number 6, Leawood, Kansas: American Arts Media, Inc., November-December, 2008, ill. p. 124.
Provenance
David and Sons Fine Arts, Laguna Beach, California; sold to Philip H. Greene (1925-2014), February 1, 1984; given to present collection, 2007.
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