CLAUDIA L. DOBBINS (American) Oil on canvas

Claudia L. Dobbins (American, Active 1940s)

Zinnias.

Oil on canvas. c1940s. Signed, lower left. Titled on frame, verso. 26 x 22 in. (660 x 559 mm). Born in Michigan on November 10, 1889. Dobbins was a long-time resident of Los Angeles. She studied there for four years at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes, four years in Norfolk, and five years at the ASL of NYC under George Bridgman and Frank Vincent DuMond. Dobbins was mysterious and secretive about her works and seldom sold any of them. Her paintings are rarely seen. Her name was Urquhart at the time of her death in Los Angeles on October 29, 1969. (Courtesy: AskART). Her work has sold at Bonhams + Butterfields in San Francisco. She also was a student of Millard Sheets.