Brickyard Swamp
Artist
Edward Arnold Reep
(1918 - 2013)
Date1953
MediumWatercolor
Dimensions18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of The Hilbert Collection
Object number2020.189
DescriptionAfter World War Two Ed Reep became increasingly interested in developing paintings that had Modern compositions and incorporated Mid-20th Century image cropping ideas… while still retaining representation subject matter and/or images based on recognizable objects. By 1954 when this work was completed, he was a highly regarded teacher at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and was also running a progressive Modern Art school in Los Angeles owned by a New York and Taos modernist painter named Emil Bisttram. This watercolor was exhibited at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954 (now the Norton Simon Museum). The image is based on flotsam and jetsam Reep saw in a swamp located next to a brick yard on the Venice Beach area of California.
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