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Bertha Elizabeth Stringer LeeEarly 20th Century Monterey Coast Landscape with Cypress Tree & Wildflowers 1915-20
1915-20
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Wonderful early 20th century California landscape of cypress trees and colorful wildflowers dotting the beautiful Monterey coast, with a glimpse of the deep blue Pacific and a soft lavender hue in the sky along the horizon, by San Francisco artist Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (American, 1869-1937). Signed "Bertha S. Lee" lower right. Displayed in a rustic wood frame. Image size: 7.5"H x 9.75"W.
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May Herzog Stringer, and as a young woman, was a socialite as well as art student.
She studied in the studio of William Keith, and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, and briefly in New York with Joseph Mathews and Paris and Germany. At age 14 she was exhibiting locally. In 1894 she married Louis Eugene Lee, an electrician, and maintained a studio in her home at 2744 Steiner Street where she gave teas and without a need to sell her work commercially, made gifts of her paintings to friends. Tragically many of her paintings were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Of her fascination with painting scenes of California, she said: "One can find all any artist could demand in variety and beauty of subject." (Kovinick 186). Among her oil paintings were ones with titles of Poppies and Lupines, Eucalyptus, Old Adobe, San Carlos Mission; and Near Lake Merced. She exhibited extensively including at the Mark Hopkins Institute, the Sequoia Club, California State Fair; San Francisco Art Association, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Bertha Lee died on March 19, 1937 in San Francisco at the age of 68.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
- Creator:Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869 - 1937)
- Creation Year:1915-20
- Dimensions:Height: 8.63 in (21.93 cm)Width: 10.63 in (27.01 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Some minor craquelure and age toning.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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