Benjamin Chambers Brown Indian Summer-Russian River, oil on canvas

Lot: 5028

(American, 1865-1942)
Indian Summer-Russian River, circa 1920
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches / 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Signed lower right: Benjamin C. Brown California, signed, and titled verso: Benjamin C. Brown, Indian Summer-Russian River
Provenance: Purchased from Studio Santa Barbara, December 29,1983 with copy of receipt. Private Collection, Piedmont, CA.
Exhibitions: American Federation of Arts Exhibit: California Artists with label attached American Federation of Arts Exhibit California Artists
Literature: The Studio Magazine, A Patriarch of Pasadena, May 1925, by Rose V.S. Berry. In this essay is a full color reproduction of the painting on page 126, where on page 124 Berry writes, Indian Summer-Russian River, is made pleasing by its difference from the usual Southern California subject, so often presented by Brown, and the difference in the season. The hills are of blue-gray, the eucalyptus trees feathery and plume-like stand out from the other trees of the hillside, while the red-roofed houses nestling in the poplar trees of the village give a colorful note, only a little less lovely than the reflections in the creek which flows directly across the foreground.

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