Guy Rose (1867-1925)Along the San Gabriel Mountains signed 'Guy Rose' (lower left) oil on canvas 24 x 29 in. framed 32 x 37 in. Painted circa 1916.FootnotesProvenance Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, California. J.V. Vickers, Southern California, since 1918. Thence by descent through the Vickers family. William A. Karges Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California. Property of a private collector. The most gifted of California's Impressionist artists, Guy Rose was the only artist among the top early Impressionists to be born in Southern California. His father, L.J. Rose, owned the Sunny Slope Ranch, located in the San Gabriel Valley about fifteen miles east of Los Angeles. Throughout his life, Guy Rose's travels took him to many of the small hamlets that dotted the base of the San Gabriel Mountains east, from Pasadena to Pomona. Rose's early career is well documented, which included extensive visits to Paris and Giverny to train with and work alongside many of the best painters of the day. From 1904 to 1912, Rose mastered the optical mixing techniques derived from Claude Monet and the other Impressionist artists in the community. Reinvigorated from his time in France, Rose returned to California to paint and focus on applying these latest Impressionistic French techniques to the California landscape, which he surely found strikingly similar in color and light to the Giverny countryside. Rose was admired and respected not only as a Native Son who went into the world, made a name for himself and returned home a famous painter, but more so as a significant Impressionist painter who mastered the style and proudly adhered to the tenants of French Impressionism. Along the San Gabriel Mountains showcases Rose's talents as a pure Impressionist and the unique ways he applied the French painting techniques he learned abroad to his hometown Southern California subjects. Depicting Mt. Baldy (formerly Mt. San Antonio), Mt. Telegraph and Mt. Cucamonga, in the Eastern portion of the San Gabriel Valley, this painting was most likely executed circa 1916 when Guy Rose was living in Alhambra. In the present work, wispy and wavy horizontal brushstrokes create movement amongst yellow wildflowers and grasses. The wind gently blows while only the painter and the viewer are witness. The soft trees in the center help give weight to the composition and scale to the distant foothills and mountains. Early spring has begun to arrived but the higher peaks still have snow blanketing their peaks. For those fortunate to see many of Rose's paintings, this scene is unmistakably painted in the artist's signature style, with high key colors, gently and competently applied paint, and a French influenced style distinctly connected to Southern California's premier Impressionist. The venerable Stendahl Galleries sold this painting to J.V. Vickers who was part owner in the Vail & Vickers Cattle Company on Santa Rosa Island. It remained in the Vickers family for decades.
Guy Rose (1867-1925)Along the San Gabriel Mountains signed 'Guy Rose' (lower left) oil on canvas 24 x 29 in. framed 32 x 37 in. Painted circa 1916.FootnotesProvenance Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, California. J.V. Vickers, Southern California, since 1918. Thence by descent through the Vickers family. William A. Karges Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California. Property of a private collector. The most gifted of California's Impressionist artists, Guy Rose was the only artist among the top early Impressionists to be born in Southern California. His father, L.J. Rose, owned the Sunny Slope Ranch, located in the San Gabriel Valley about fifteen miles east of Los Angeles. Throughout his life, Guy Rose's travels took him to many of the small hamlets that dotted the base of the San Gabriel Mountains east, from Pasadena to Pomona. Rose's early career is well documented, which included extensive visits to Paris and Giverny to train with and work alongside many of the best painters of the day. From 1904 to 1912, Rose mastered the optical mixing techniques derived from Claude Monet and the other Impressionist artists in the community. Reinvigorated from his time in France, Rose returned to California to paint and focus on applying these latest Impressionistic French techniques to the California landscape, which he surely found strikingly similar in color and light to the Giverny countryside. Rose was admired and respected not only as a Native Son who went into the world, made a name for himself and returned home a famous painter, but more so as a significant Impressionist painter who mastered the style and proudly adhered to the tenants of French Impressionism. Along the San Gabriel Mountains showcases Rose's talents as a pure Impressionist and the unique ways he applied the French painting techniques he learned abroad to his hometown Southern California subjects. Depicting Mt. Baldy (formerly Mt. San Antonio), Mt. Telegraph and Mt. Cucamonga, in the Eastern portion of the San Gabriel Valley, this painting was most likely executed circa 1916 when Guy Rose was living in Alhambra. In the present work, wispy and wavy horizontal brushstrokes create movement amongst yellow wildflowers and grasses. The wind gently blows while only the painter and the viewer are witness. The soft trees in the center help give weight to the composition and scale to the distant foothills and mountains. Early spring has begun to arrived but the higher peaks still have snow blanketing their peaks. For those fortunate to see many of Rose's paintings, this scene is unmistakably painted in the artist's signature style, with high key colors, gently and competently applied paint, and a French influenced style distinctly connected to Southern California's premier Impressionist. The venerable Stendahl Galleries sold this painting to J.V. Vickers who was part owner in the Vail & Vickers Cattle Company on Santa Rosa Island. It remained in the Vickers family for decades.
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