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ClassificationsPaintings-watercolors

Artist Ann R. Cullen (American, 1928 - 2018)

Date1992

Made AtCalifornia, United States, North America

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions12 3/8 × 16 1/8 in. (31.4 × 41 cm)
Framed: 19 × 23 × 3/4 in. (48.3 × 58.4 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineAnn and Bill Cullen Memorial Collection

Object number2018.6.51

DescriptionAnn Cullen, the collector of this donation, was herself an artist of some skill. She worked primarily as an actress and model but earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art at USC in the late 1940s. Over the course of her life she painted and drew as a hobby. In large part due to her interest in art, she developed personal relationships with many of the artists she collected. Despite the obvious quality of her work, Ann always felt that she was not a talented artist, and as a result kept her paintings to herself in the drawers of her studio desk. Of all the mediums she worked in, Ann was most talented as a watercolorist. This landscape, painted from some Southern Californian veranda, possibly even her own home when she lived in Big Canyon, Newport Beach, California, illustrates just how adept she was at capturing both light and shadow in watercolor.

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