Live Crab Shack

Artist George James (1932 - 2016)

Date1960s

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions19 x 26 in. (48.3 x 66 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineThe Hilbert Collection

Object numberJam-7

DescriptionOnce upon a time, you could find floating venues that sold fresh fish and crabs in various places around Newport Beach and Corona del Mar, not to mention the historic Dory Fleet. Today, only the Dory Fleet and Pearson’s Port remain, still afloat and still vending the finest seafood straight from local waters. George James was born in Detroit, MI and grew up in Southern California. During his teenage years he attended the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting in Corona del Mar and studied watercolor painting with Rex Brandt, Phil Dike and George Post. During the 1950s, he developed a geometric, abstractionist style of watercolor painting. Most of his works of this era were inspired by beach-city subjects in the Newport and Balboa area of Orange County. They were exhibited with the California Water Color Society and sold through local art galleries. James also taught art and served as an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton.

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