Arleen Huseby - Sunset on the Marsh - oil on board - P2604
Labeled, titled (and sub-titled by the artist as "Original Sketch by Arleen Huseby"), we find this to be a great deal more than that: a delicate capture of that most evanescent of moments by an artist intent on getting it down and getting it right. She succeeds beautifully.
Art measures 18 1/2" x 22 1/2". Frame is 27 1/4" x 23 1/4" x 1 1/2".
Arleen Alice Meister Huseby was born in Chicago, IL on March 12, 1912. Arleen grew up in Chicago and studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts. About 1940 she moved to the Los Angeles area with her husband, Norman Huseby. During 1945 to 1958 she lived in Dallas, Texas and then returned to Arcadia, California. She was a pupil of Stanley Woodward and Bennett Bradbury. Working in oil and watercolor, she specialized in seascapes. She taught art for decades in southern California, mostly at Saddleback Community College. After the death of her first husband in 1963, she wed artist C. Elmo Gillett. She died in Placer, CA on March 18, 2009. Exh: Laguna Beach AA, 1960s; Desert Art Center, 1960s; San Gabriel Fine Arts Ass'n; California Art Club, 1967.
