Evelyn Kane – Bunker Hill Los Angeles – Oil On Canvas 1955

Mid-century modernist at play: and what better subject than a doomed soon-to-be-demolished Victorian on Bunker Hill? This painting is just so much fun.

In 1966, The Los Angeles Times wrote of Bunker Hill: “Nowhere else in Los Angeles was the architecture so ornate. The mansions were wooden-frame Victorian with Gothic gingerbread touches applied with a heavy hand to simulate masonry.”

Game on.  Art 20 x 24, Framed 24 x 28.25.

Evelyn Kane

1918-1972

Kane exhibited at the Arts of Southern California II Painting, Long Beach Museum, 1958, per OMG; OMS - Evelyn Kane, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, 1956, 3 pps.

Source: Nancy Dustin Moure, "Publications in California Art No. 11 , Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972; 2015 edition".