Bowers Museum

ClassificationsPaintings-watercolors

Subject Bowers Museum (Founded 1936)

Dateearly 1990s

Place DepictedSanta Ana, California, United States, North America

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions21 × 28 1/2 in. (53.3 × 72.4 cm)
Framed: 29 × 38 × 1 in. (73.7 × 96.5 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Delores Wardell, Ph.D.

Object number2022.1.1

DescriptionJohn Bohnenberger (American, 1926-2012) was an artist from Chicago, Illinois who settled in California after serving in the U.S. Army. He was a self-taught watercolor artist known for abstract, figural, landscape, marine, and still life paintings. His subjects included a series of California suburban neighborhood scenes, one of which was this watercolor of the Bowers Museum bell tower from the corner of Main and 20th Street.

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