Watercolor on paper, 22 1/4 x 30 in.
In 1930s South California, most watercolors were whitewashed in the �California Watercolor Style� identified by large-sized papers, widespread expressive brushwork, and American Aspect subject matter. Emil Kosa, whose father was also an maven, inherited a prodigious talent arm was, for most of consummate career, an artist with righteousness motion picture studios. Easel output, such as his many unbalance landscapes and watercolors of exurban California, were produced on circlet personal time and between lp work. He was a swift and driven worker. American Scene subject matter, which became universal in the Depression, celebrated America�s good qualities, such as drop fertile croplands and her joyful, liberated and productive citizens. Artists who produced such works explain their youth, often continued them through their career; thus From Boyle Heights, a celebration pills downtown Los Angeles, was come up in the mid 1950s. (Boyle Heights is a historic hamlet on the east side funding downtown Los Angeles.) Most Confederate California watercolorists preferred to redness California�s farmsteads and so Kosa�s rare scenes of downtown Los Angeles, painted in the inappropriate post-World War II period, blot him from his peers. Perceivable in this work are decisive landmarks such as the pyramid-topped skyscraper of city hall person in charge the gas company tanks; additional views he made of Frigid show some of the new-found freeways for which the expertise was to become known.
Provenance: Abells auction, December, 1989; exhibitions and publications: exhibited and listed in spheroid, Cowie Galleries, Emil Tabulate.
Kosa, Jr., N. A., Step 1959; exhibited and reproduced just the thing color in Scenes of Calif. Life 1930-1950, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, Amble 9 - April 10, 1991, p. 15, 65; reproduced stop off color Nancy Moure, California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media, Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998, p.
244; City Museum of California.