Death in a California Landscape

December 5, 2014June 1, 2019 / coastroad / Leave a comment

Almost four years ago I enthusiastically reviewed Elizabeth C. Ward’s Coast Highway 1 as “a fairly essential Coast Road Read,” and now Ms. Ward returns with another must-read for California coast enthusiasts or for anyone who enjoys a good mystery: Death in a California Landscape. Set in Laguna Beach, Ms. Ward gracefully depicts the type … Continue reading Death in a California Landscape

My Nepenthe by Romney Steele

March 11, 2012March 26, 2014 / coastroad / 2 Comments

While Holly's Honey Wheat Berry Bread dough rises in my warm kitchen, let me tell you of a good book about the California coast which provides three things: Intimate Authenticity of the place, a History about how and why people settled at that location, and snippets of Experiences with the Coast Road. My Nepenthe, by Romney … Continue reading My Nepenthe by Romney Steele

On the Coast of California – Currier & Ives

February 28, 2012March 26, 2014 / coastroad / 4 Comments

Currier & Ives lithographed the West for the railroad. The coastal scene above presents a California that is both abundant and simple. A magnificent mountain peaks above clouds. Ships harbor in the distance and a man walks with his burros towards the village along the coast road. Idyllic. Edenic. An untouched world available to possibility. Other … Continue reading On the Coast of California – Currier & Ives

Jeffrey Horn’s, “Spring Bounty”

February 12, 2012March 26, 2014 / coastroad / Leave a comment

Forever Stoked – 6th Annual Art Show – Saturday, September 17

September 9, 2011September 9, 2011 / coastroad / 1 Comment

Forever Stoked 6th Annual Artshow Saturday - September 17, 2011 San Bernardo Creek Ranch - Morro Bay CA The FS Studio/Showroom is located on a gorgeous 1200 acre ranch where they unveil most of their newest work. Many FS artists will be in attendance.

Winter Sun :: Emil Kosa, Jr. (1903-1968)

November 18, 2010December 8, 2010 / coastroad / 2 Comments

Emil, born in Paris, France, moved to Los Angeles, California in 1928. Emil taught painting in Laguna Beach and had many friends in the art scene there. Emil was also a special effects artist for 20th Century Fox Studios. The buried Statue of Liberty seen at the beach in the finale of Planet of the … Continue reading Winter Sun :: Emil Kosa, Jr. (1903-1968)

Alex Schaefer :: Pacific Coast Highway

January 17, 2010January 18, 2010 / coastroad / 1 Comment

Alex Schaefer paints PCH at the intersection of Corral Canyon Road. Alex does not omit the modern details. Emphasis upon the painting's foreground directs the viewer's focus onto a traffic signal holding cars at red stoplight. Stop. Focus. The sand-squatting hulk of a grey concrete west highway residence takes up center space of this painting, … Continue reading Alex Schaefer :: Pacific Coast Highway

Robert Frame :: 1924 – 1999

December 18, 2009 / coastroad / 3 Comments

3 responses to “Robert Frame :: 1924 – 1999”

Kim Elliott

January 24, 2010

Robert Frame was a teacher of mine when I attended Santa Barbara City College. What I learned from him that helped me the most was his use of cool colors against warm colors, his constant talking about the plays of darks and light and “a true artist constructs their own canvas”. I loved his work ethic of completing paintings each Tues. and Thurs. He was a great teacher not only of oil paintings but of pen and ink and watercolor pencils. I attended one of his showings in Laguna Beach and was thrilled to see sold signs on the majority of his works. It is very inspirational to have a teacher that was a huge success and took the time to not only teach his students but listen to their thoughts. I was so lucky to have been one of his students.
Anneliese

December 21, 2009

I have to agree with you BSK! The elevations are all wrong for Malibu, where the Coast Road runs along the coast rather than atop bluffs. However, I’ve decided to go with this title if he painted it in the 1940s when his art career began, and if he may be excused for a bit of hyperbole in dimensions.

Take a look at this view and perhaps here was his vantage (not from a plane necessarily), from Escondido Beach and Point Dume, northward?
http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=200801912&mode=sequential&flags=0&year=2008
bigsurkate

December 20, 2009

Wow, Malibu?? I could have sworn this was Big Sur, until I looked at the tag. It must have been painted before it was so built up. Malibu is a treasure, and Highway One is still my preferred method of obtaining entrance into LaLa Land, and though I’ve lived on this coast for 60 years, never saw Malibu like this! Great painting, though.

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