Afternoon Ride
Artist
Phil Paradise
(1905 - 1997)
Date1950s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/4 x 36 in. (61.6 x 91.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineThe Hilbert Collection
Object numberPar-2
DescriptionA frieze of horses and stylized female riders gallops past in this engaging painting by Phil Paradise, one of California’s most noted artists working in the regional Scene Painting style. Encircled by the hug of the shoreline, the piece takes on a carousel-like look. The Oregon-born Paradise moved to California with his family at an early age, and grew up in San Diego and Bakersfield. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and was an instructor there from 1931-41, and an art director for Paramount Studios from 1941-48.
He lectured at the University of Texas at El Paso and Scripps College, and later became director of the Cambria Summer Art School. His illustrations appeared in such magazines as Westways and Fortune.
Paradise’s early works were Regionalist in style and subject matter, but during the 1940s he developed a more stylized approach, with subjects drawn from his travels to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. He also created metal sculpture, pottery and ceramic murals, which he sold out of his studio-home in Cambria.
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