Boris Deutsch 1944 California Landscape Etching for sale
Item ID: 390311
Item Description
Boris Deutsch Etching of a california landscape Signed and dated 1944.
Born in Krasnagorka, Lithuania on June 4, 1892. Deutsch began drawing at age five and remained a self-taught artist except for brief intervals at the Bloom Academy of Art in Riga, Latvia and the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Berlin. He immigrated to Seattle, WA in 1916 and in 1919 settled in Los Angeles. He soon was supporting himself with commercial art and set designs for movies. During the late 1930s he did murals for the WPA including Hot Springs (NM) Post Office, Reedley (CA) Post Office, and 11 murals in the Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office. A modernist, he specialized in Jewish genre and figures; during the last decade of his life he experimented with monotypes and other printmaking. Deutsch died in Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 1978. Exh: LACMA, 1926, 1929, 1941; USC, 1926; Calif. Art Club, 1929; Mills College (Oakland), 1929; Zeitlin Gallery (LA), 1929; Seattle Museum, 1930; San Diego FA Society, 1930; Denver Museum, 1931; CPLH, 1931; Portland (OR) Museum, 1931; Dallas Museum, 1932; Oakland Art Gallery, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1940; Stockton Museum, 1940; UCLA, 1942; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1945; Calif. WC Society, 1945; Scripps College, 1946. In: LACMA; MM; Orange Co. (CA) Museum; Carnegie Institute; NMAA; CPLH; Mills College.Source:
Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940″
Design History
Designer: Unknown designer
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