This a beautiful and extremely RARE Antique California Plein Air Abstract Impressionist Oil Painting on artists board, by the enigmatic and highly talented early Modernist painter Emma Lou Breitag (1899 - ?) This work depicts a coastal Southern California seascape in Ventura, California. This work is unsigned, but a label on the verso reads: “Original Oil Painting. Scene: Ventura, Calif. 1929. Artist: E.L. Breitag. Additionally on the verso, this is work is signed in graphite: “Louis(?) Schwartz from Emma Lou Breitag Simpson.” Approximately 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 6 x 9 inches. Works by this artist are incredibly rare, and only two other such paintings by this artist are known to currently exist. Her abstract and Fauve landscape / seascape paintings were well ahead of her time, and considering she is a Missouri painter who depicted a California seascape, this work is exceptionally important and unique. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!
About the Artist:
Born: 1899 - MissouriKnown for: Modernist landscape, shoreline scene painting
Emma M. Breitag, A.B. graduated in 1921 from the University of Kansas School of Liberal Arts. She is listed in the University's 1922 Alumni book (Vol. 23, Issue 4, page 133).
Emma was the youngest of seven children born to Ludwig D. Breitag (b Pommern, Prussia 3/5/1859) and Augusta E. Weise of South Bend, Indiana (also an immigrant from Germany).
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