Standish Backus Jr ART FOR SALE

1910 Detroit, Michigan - 1989 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Landscape, marine genre and mural painting.

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Born in Detroit, Michigan to a wealthy family, Standish Backus studied watercolor while he was an architecture student at Princeton and at the University of Munich. His formal art training was limited to a brief period of study with Eliot O'Hara. In 1935, he moved to Santa Barbara,California and became active with the California Water Color Society. During World War II, he was a combat artist* for the Navy in the Pacific, and in 1955 participated in Admiral Byrd's expedition to the South Pole. In 1967, he designed the Pacific War Memorial mosaic mural for Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. He was a California scene painter and member of the American Watercolor Society*. He died in Santa Barbara. Sources:. Edan Hughes, Artists in California,... Read full biography

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Trailbreakers

Type:Painting

Year:1937

Size:24.00" x 30.00" x 1.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

Notes:

This painting is part of the exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s. Exhibited: 1) Santa Barbara Artists Association, Santa Barbara, California, 1937 ; and 2) Seventh Summer Exhibition, Santa Barbara, California, 1937 (label verso) ; presented in a newer painted stepped frame

Price: $7,500. Please contact CW American Modernism