California, Ontario, Oregon. 1905 - 1997
Landscape and mural painting, art education, serigraphs
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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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California. 1914 - 2000
Landscape and marine easel painting, illustration, mural
California. 1911 - 1983
Town-harborscape, animal and genre painting, teaching
California. 1890 - 1978
Watercolor ship and harbor scene painting, military artist
California, Arizona. 1906 - 1990
Mod coastal-town-landscape and regional scene painting
California, Minnesota. 1884 - 1971
Still life, landscape and portrait painting, commercial art
California. 1903 - 1968
Regional landscape, figure-nude and still life painting
California / Europe. 1874 - 1940
Wildlife, mountains landscape and coastal view paintings, panoramas
California. 1888 - 1961
Figure, portrait, genre and landscape painting
California, New York. 1881 - 1959
Marine, landscape and portrait painting
California / Germany. 1868 - 1945
Coastal view, figure, illustration
California. 1890 - 1939
Modernist figure, landscape and portrait painting
California. 1886 - 1977
Landscape, harbors and townscape painting, illustration
California, Michigan. 1871/72 - 1937
Landscape and portrait painting
California, New York, Michigan. 1882 - 1957
Sea-landscape painting, illustration, etching
California. 1878 - 1954
Pastoral landscape, marine, harbor view
California. 1879 - 1963
Seascape and floral landscape painting, illustration
California / Germany. 1863 - 1945
Figure, landscape, portrait, genre painting
California, Arkansas. 1865 - 1942
Landscape, portrait and still-life painting, etching
California, New York, Ohio. 1854 - 1940
Desert landscape, genre and portrait painting
California. 1921 - 1984
Illustration, landscape painting
California. 1880 - 1960
Landscape, still life and portrait painting
California, Massachusetts. 1876 - 1954
Portrait, figure-genre, still life painting
California / Hungary. 1882 - 1931
Impressionist painting-sea-landscape, portrait and interiors
California. 1907 - 1989
Modernist painting-genre-views, horse, coastal
California, New York. 1881 - 1961
Landscape, portrait and floral still-life painting
California, Illinois. 1886 - 1975
Fishing boats, seascapes, landscape
California, Iowa. 1850 - 1936
Landscape-floral, portrait, figure
California / Russian Federation. 1898 - 1973
Figure and genre painting, illustration
California, New York / Germany. 1871 - 1948
Seascape, landscape and coastal view painting
California. 1889 - 1975
Landscape-desert-coastal and portrait painting
New York, California. 1890 - 1937
Desert landscape and genre painting