Nell Walker Warner - Monterey Bay, Cannery Row - RARE oil on Board 1930s-40s P3337

A really lovely view of Monterey Bay by a terrific California artist. Loose and impressionistic and free. We call it rare because very few of her paintings come up for sale. A rare talent. And as you can see from the photo we append, this is a view of Cannery Row, made famous by John Steinbeck's novel of that name.

Here is a link to her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Walker_Warner

Art measures 12" high x 15"

Nell Walker Warner was born April 1, 1891 in Richardson County, Nebraska.  She was a graduate of the Lexington, MO Women's College in 1910.  Following a brief teaching assignment in Colorado Springs, CO, she moved to Los Angeles, CA and studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design, receiving a diploma in 1916.  She then taught art classes at the Hollywood School for Girls and Westlake School for Girls (1916-1918), and later did backgrounds for titles of silent motion pictures.  She also traveled in Europe and spent three summers in Cape Ann, MA painting harbor scenes. 

During the 1920s she was art curator of the Tuesday Afternoon Club and further studied locally with Nicolai Fechin, Fritz Werner, and Paul Lauritz in Los Angeles. She moved to Carmel, CA in 1952, but at some point she lived in Reserve (Brown County) before moving to California. A picture of a corner of her library painted by her was on the cover page of the Literary Digest in the early 1930s. A book titled How Nell Walker Warner Paints in Oils (Laguna Beach, CA: Walter T. Foster, n.d.) was published in the 1950s or 60s.

Memberships:
California Art Club; Glendale Art Association; California Watercolor Society; Laguna Beach Art Association; Artland Club; Academy of Western Painters; Pasadena Society of Artists; Women Painters of the West (pres. 1946-48); Society of Western Artists; Carmel Art Association.

Exhibitions:
Laguna Beach Art Association; Pasadena Art Institute; Artists of Southern California, San Diego; Arizona State Fair, Phoenix; Pasadena Society of Artists; Springville Museum of Art, UT; Golden Gate International Exposition; Carmel Art Association; Academy of Western Painters; California Watercolor Society; Gardena High School; Women Painters of the West; Ebell Club; Artists Fiesta; California Art Club, 1925-38; Wilshire Gallery, 1928;; Desert Sun Gallery, Palm Springs, 1937; Golden Gate International Exposition 1940; Society for Sanity in Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1945; Artists Guild of America, 1953, 1955, 1960, 1963.

Awards:
First prize, Artists of the Southwest; Southern California Fair, 1925; Medals, California Eisteddfod, 1925; 3rd prize, California State Fair, 1929; 1st prize, California State Fair, 1931; Santa Cruz Art League, 1930.

Collections:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Topeka Capital (Jan. 26, 1931); AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Mar. 16, 2009.