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Lost in the Wood, 1928
May E. Schaetzel (American, 1870-1952)
Gouache on paper; 26 1/4 × 20 i…
Lost in the Woods
Lost in the Wood, 1928
May E. Schaetzel (American, 1870-1952)
Gouache on paper; 26 1/4 × 20 i…
Lost in the Wood, 1928 May E. Schaetzel (American, 1870-1952) Gouache on paper; 26 1/4 × 20 in. 31414 Gift of Jules and Hazel Schaetzel
Bowers Museum

Lost in the Woods

ClassificationsPaintings-gouaches
Artist May E. Schaetzel (American, 1870 - 1952)
Date1928
Made AtParis, France, Europe
MediumGouache on paper
DimensionsFramed: 26 1/4 × 20 × 3/4 in. (66.7 × 50.8 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jules and Hazel Schaetzel
Object number31414
DescriptionThis painting by May E. Schaetzel was exhibited in Paris shortly after its creation in 1928, and later at the 8th Annual Southern California Art Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego in 1934. Schaetzel is not well known by today's collectors of California art, possibly because the middle of her career was spent in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C. Although she returned to Los Angeles in her later years, she does not seem to have succumbed to turning out landscapes that might have caught the eye of local collectors. Rather her work is more sophisticated and international, as is seen in "Lost in the Woods", which has an Art Deco twist.
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