
Alfred R. Mitchell(1888-1972)Sunset glow 30 x 36in overall: 40 1/2 x 46 1/2in
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Alfred R. Mitchell (1888-1972)
signed 'Alfred R. Mitchell.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 36in
overall: 40 1/2 x 46 1/2in
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Alfred R. Mitchell [née Dorothea Webster], by descent.
with Mission Galleries, San Diego, California.
with Robert Bijou Fine Art, San Francisco, California and Chicago, Illinois, circa 1989.
with Stewart Galleries, Palm Springs, California.
The Buck Collection, Laguna Beach, California, 1998.
Private collection, Corona del Mar, California.
Exhibited
San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Alfred R. Mitchell, October 9 - November 4, 1973 (loaned by Mrs. Mitchell).
Literature
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine, September/October 1988, Vol. 5, No. 6, p. 35.
Paul Bockhorst, Impressions of California : Early Currents in Art, 1850-1930 [documentary film], Part Three: Early Art in Laguna Beach and San Diego, Paul Bockhorst Productions, 1996.
The work depicts the El Monte Valley with El Cajon Mountain in the distance, located in the Cuyamaca Mountains in Eastern San Diego County. El Cajon is known colloquially as 'El Capitan', after the similarly steep rock face in Yosemite Valley.