"Cathedral Rock, New Mexico"
Type:Painting
Size:18.00" x 26.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Paul Lauritz ART FOR SALE
1889 Larvik, Norway - 1975 Glendale, California. Known for: Landscape-desert-coastal and portrait painting.
Born in Larvik, Norway, Paul Lauritz became a noted painter based in California of portraits and desert landscapes. Early in his career, he was in Alaska. He was raised in the picturesque Norwegian... Read full biography
Born in Larvik, Norway, Paul Lauritz became a noted painter based in California of portraits and desert landscapes. Early in his career, he was in Alaska. He was raised in the picturesque Norwegian village of Larvik and exposed to famous painters from all over the world who came there for subject... Read full biography
Born in Larvik, Norway, Paul Lauritz became a noted painter based in California of portraits and desert landscapes. Early in his career, he was in Alaska. He was raised in the picturesque Norwegian village of Larvik and exposed to famous painters from all over the world who came there for subject matter. One of them, an English watercolorist, gave him painting lessons in exchange for his family providing board and room, and local painters Fritz Thoulaw and Christian Krogh also encouraged him as... Read full biography
Born in Larvik, Norway, Paul Lauritz became a noted painter based in California of portraits and desert landscapes. Early in his career, he was in Alaska. He was raised in the picturesque Norwegian village of Larvik and exposed to famous painters from all over the world who came there for subject matter. One of them, an English watercolorist, gave him painting lessons in exchange for his family providing board and room, and local painters Fritz Thoulaw and Christian Krogh also encouraged him as a young man. At age 16, he headed West and got a job in Vancouver, Canada, and then Portland, Oregon as a commercial artist doing maps, posters and decorations. In Portland, he married Mary Potterton in 1912, and then began a career as a serious... Read full biography
Born in Larvik, Norway, Paul Lauritz became a noted painter based in California of portraits and desert landscapes. Early in his career, he was in Alaska. He was raised in the picturesque Norwegian village of Larvik and exposed to famous painters from all over the world who came there for subject matter. One of them, an English watercolorist, gave him painting lessons in exchange for his family providing board and room, and local painters Fritz Thoulaw and Christian Krogh also encouraged him as a young man. At age 16, he headed West and got a job in Vancouver, Canada, and then Portland, Oregon as a commercial artist doing maps, posters and decorations. In Portland, he married Mary Potterton in 1912, and then began a career as a serious portrait artist. However, the lure of gold in Alaska took him and Mary to Sunrise Creek, where they lost money, and he vowed he would... Read full biography
Paul Lauritz - Art for Sale (5 available)
The River
Type:Painting
Size:20.00" x 28.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
An Alaskan or California River. Feels more like former, when Lauritz joined the Alaska Gold Rush, was unsuccessful, and painted and exhibited with Sydney Laurence.
The Coming Storm
Type:Painting
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
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The Verdugo Hills
Type:Painting
Year:c.1925
Size:36.00" x 42.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
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Palos Verdes
Type:Painting
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right