Dan Lutz (1906-1978)- Summer Meadow - Oil on Canvas P3397
A really glorious California post-impressionist landscape . A ravishing immersion into high summer. Wonderful skill in perspective with the two horses clearly on steep hill high above the lake framed by trees.
Measures 9" x 7" in a superb 15 1/2" x 18 1/2" frame (some wood lost at the bottom).
The label reads Dalzell Hatfield Galleries. Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Calling this gallery important would be an understatement. Seminal to the development of the art market in LA.
Dan Lutz (1906-1978) Born: Decatur, IL; Studied: Chicago Art Institute; Member: American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club. Dan Lutz grew up in Illinois. He attended the Chicago Art Institute for four years and in 1931, received the James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship which enabled him to study and paint in Europe. After returning to the United States, he settled in Southern California.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he primarily produced watercolors featuring regional subjects. After 1950, he concentrated on abstract works painted with oils on canvas.
He taught art at the University of Southern California in the 1930s and at the Chouinard Art Institute in the 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s, he lectured occasionally, while continuing to paint.
Biographical information:
Interview with Dorothy Lutz Fleurat, 1983.
Biography courtesy of California Watercolors 1850-1970,
The Dalzell Hatfield Gallery initially opened in Los Angeles in 1925, then ran continuously from 1939 until 1984 at the Ambassador Hotel. It displayed the work by European and American masters, as well as quite a number of contemporary artists. It sold works ranging from furniture and tapestries to Old Masters paintings, and played an instrumental role in introducing modern art to the West. The gallery organized early exhibitions of Pierre Renoir (1940), Raoul Dufy (1940), Salvador Dalí (1941), Max Pechstein (1959), Gabriele Münter (1960), and Picasso’s Vollard Suite (1956), and can be credited with the discovery of Millard Sheets. The gallery’s proprietors were Dalzell and Ruth Hatfield, who married in 1929.
