Womans Oil Portrait on Canvas by listed California Artist Marjorie Shape. The portrait is of a older woman, gray hair, blue eyes, seated with garden background. Very well done. In ornate gilt wood frame with linen liner and gilt molding. In frame 34"x40"x3". Stretcher 24"x30". Weight 15 pds. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate. ***Pickup only or Shipping on furniture offered through Outward Bound 413-854-3676, TSI 866-411-4587, The UPS store 843-202-0141, Pak-Mail 843-849-0310 or locally AJ Williams & Sons 843-442-0462 or your own choice of shipper. Please contact them or your own choice of shipper directly. ***Marjorie Sharpe is a California artist, the daughter of listed artist Marian Barnett (1913 - 1978) , who was well known for her paintings of roses. This very well done portrait is a unique piece among Sharpe's roses and coastal seascapes. Marjorie Sharpe: Marjorie’s natural talents (painting and music) were carefully tutored from her earliest years by her famous artist mother Marian Barnett; at the age of eleven she was advanced enough to study at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery. Concurrently, she was becoming an accomplished pianist. Later, attending La Jolla High School, the University of Washington and Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo), Marjorie won various awards, a scholarship in painting and obtained a California State Teacher’s Credential for both art and music. Travel in Europe and two years with the Army Special Services in Northern Bavaria helped to polish her art techniques and understanding to a fine point. In later years, she assumed a triple role in oil paintings: supplementary studying with such internationally known artists as Leon Franks and Bennett Bradbury; as a distinguished practicing painter, and as a successful art instructor in collaboration with her mother. Their classes at their Morro Bay Art Gallery-Studio were eagerly attended by students young and elderly, from all over California.

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