Haldane Douglas (1893 - 1980) - Semi-Abstract Expressionist Mexican Landscape - Oil on Board c 1930 P3410
As you can tell from our caption, this exciting work doesn't really fit into any one category of painting. To our eyes it is really exciting and alive with its boiling sky and moving landscape and the elegant and elongated figure of the man in the sombrero all executed in brilliant colors with a considerable amount of dash.
Art measures 12" x 15" and the terrific frame is 18 1'2" x 21 1/2". Signed in pencil on the back.
Architect, painter, etcher, muralist. Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Aug. 13, 1893. By the early 1920s Haldane Douglas had moved to California. Winters were spent in southern California and summers in Monterey where he was a pupil of Armin Hansen. He further studied with André Lhote in Paris during 1926-28. After returning from Europe, he taught at the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles and was associated with Fox Film Corporation during the 1930s. He died in Orange County, CA on May 26, 1980. Member: Calif. Art Club; Painters & Sculptors of LA; Laguna Beach AA. Exh: LA County Fair, 1925; San Francisco Art Association, 1929; Salon dAutomne (Paris), 1928 (award); LACMA, 1930 (award); Artists Fiesta (LA), 1931; Biltmore Salon and Stendahl Galleries (LA), 1920s; Beaux Arts Galerie (SF), 1929. In: NMAA; 20th Century Fox's Cafe de Paris (mural); Monterey Peninsula Museum; Hollywood High School Library (42' mural of Education). & AAA 1925-33; Ben; SCA; Fld. - Crocker Museum
