Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
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1910 Detroit, Michigan - 1989 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Landscape, marine genre and mural painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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
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, 1786-1940. Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, California Watercolors 1850-1970. * For mo... Read full biography
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Art at the Jonathan Club
2010Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Jeffery Morseburg, Tressa Miller, Nat Read, Richard Reitzell184 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesEveryday Life in California, Regional Watercolors, 1930-1960
2004
(Exhibition catalog)California Heritage Museum56 pages (color)California Holiday: The E Gene Crain Collection (Laguna Art Museum)
2002
(Exhibition catalog)Anderson, Susan; Janet Blake96 pages (color)Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last231 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick510 pages (color)Scenes of California Light, 1930-1950 (Todd Madigan Gallery)
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Moure, Nancy D.W.70 pages (color)Scenes of California Life 1930-1950
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Todd Madigan Gallery69 pages (color)American Scene Painting, California 1930s and 1940s
1991Westphal, Ruth; Janet B Dominik240 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesArtists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesRegionalism: The California View Watercolors 1929-1945
1988Anderson, Susan88 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe California Style Watercolor Artists 1925-1955
1985McClelland, Gordon T; Jay Last259 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesCalifornia Watercolor Society Index to Exhibitions 1921-1954
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall96 pagesThrough the American Landscape
1941Klitgaard, Kaj323 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages