BERTHA TOWNSEND COLER (1865-1948) still life oil painting by listed California woman artist
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Directory: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1940: Item # 1424106
Directory: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1940: Item # 1424106
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Jon Berg Fine Art and More
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2311 Schader Dr. #310
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-453-5620
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2311 Schader Dr. #310
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-453-5620
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$400.00
A vintage still life oil painting of yellow and orange flowers in a brown jug on a table top, unframed, 30" by 36", signed at lower right by listed Southern California artist BERTHA TOWNSEND COLER (1865-1948). Coler was born in Ohio and studied with Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase in New York City. By 1928 she had moved to Santa Monica, California and for the next two decades was a prolific painter in watercolor and oil, concentrating on portraits and still life, with some landscapes in the mix. Coler was a member of Women Painters of the West; she exhibited at the Santa Monica library in 1933, at the Santa Monica Art League in 1934, and at the prestigious Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco in 1939. Recently, a large group of her oils and watercolors were offered in a sale at the Pacific Palisades home of her descendants, and I was fortunate to have acquired a number of these works, which I will be offering in my shop. This example happens to be in the generally best condition of all the paintings I acquired on that occasion. A restorer evaluated some of the paintings and did some test cleanings. The circa 1940 painting could benefit from a cleaning; there is general soiling, uneven non-flat surface, and some stretcher bar show-through. I will leave this restoration work to the final owner.
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