George Booth Root Post ART FOR SALE

1906 Oakland, California - 1997. Known for: Modernist town-landscape, machines and marine painting.

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Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father, Walter Post, and George moved to Nevada. There his mother changed his surname to Post. As an adult he used George Booth Root Post. He showed an interest in drawing at age five. He started formal art classes in high school. His art instructor saw that he had considerable natural talent and George received a scholarship. He began his two and one half year education at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1924. There he was introduced... Read full biography

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Green Hulls

Type:Painting

Year:1941

Size:16.00" x 23.00"

Medium:Watercolor

Signed:Lower Right

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This painting belonged to John Steinbeck's first wife, Carol (Henning Brown). She assisted Steinbeck in his early work, including Grapes of Wrath. She had several paintings by Post, including a piece of Bath, Maine that we will post soon. Green Hulls exhibited Denver Museum of Art, 1945.

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