Ferdinand Burgdorff ART FOR SALE

1881 Cleveland, Ohio - 1975 Pebble Beach, California. Known for: Landscape and genre painting, printmaking.

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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferdinand Burgdorff studied at the Cleveland School of Art and in Paris with Rene Menard and Florence Este. In 1907, he headed West with the intention of becoming a desert landscape painter. He lived in box cars with railroad builders on the stretch of line between Yuma and Calexico and traveling by wagon or horseback, accompanied surveyors on many trips into the desert. Of this time he wrote: "There were such exciting things to see and paint, undisturbed by a single human within miles" (Widening Horizons). He also worked for a period in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he painted the sandy wastes near Albuquerque in the region known as the Sandia. He then moved to California where he was an illustrator for The Sunset... Read full biography

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Laguna Seca, the Marilyn Monroe painting - Image 1 of 4

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Laguna Seca, the Marilyn Monroe painting

Type:Painting

Year:1940

Size:30.00" x 45.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

Notes:

The cast for ``Clash by Night,'' including Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Stanwick, sat under this painting daily in a Monterey adobe during the shooting of the 1952 film. Above a photo of Monroe and J. Carrol Naish under the painting, which in 2008 exhibited at the National Steinbeck Center.

Price: SOLD

Pantheum Moonlight

Type:Painting

Year:1916

Size:16.00" x 24.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

Price: Please contact Wolfs Gallery