Dockside

ClassificationsPaintings-watercolors

Artist Noel Quinn (American, 1915 - 1993)

Datec. 1960

Place DepictedCalifornia, United States, North America

Made AtCalifornia, United States, North America

MediumWatercolor on paper

DimensionsApproximately: 19 1/4 × 26 3/4 in. (48.9 × 67.9 cm)
Framed: 28 × 35 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (71.1 × 90.2 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineAnn and Bill Cullen Memorial Collection

Object number2018.6.23

DescriptionNoel Quinn studied with Andre L’Hote, a key teacher of the Cubist art movement, and with Andre Cassandre in France and Italy for post graduate studies. Before leaving Europe, he was asked by Adolph Hitler to critique his watercolors and spent time with Pablo Picasso. When the Second World War started, he moved to Los Angeles and began working in the motion picture industry by producing pre-production art for studios such as Paramount, MGM, and 20th Century Fox.

Here the viewer is immediately greeted with a burst of brilliant color, showing a significant amount of wet-on-wet application next to large areas of blank paper. Quinn often experimented with color as he does here, though Dockside is relatively unique within the scope of the artist’s landscapes for disembodying and rearranging elements of the scene in a manner reminiscent of Cubism.

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