ARTIST: Sydney Lemos (California, 1892 - 1944)
TITLE: Still Life with Pot and Onions
YEAR: 1909
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One patch-repaired tear with corresponding paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light. Minor damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 11 x 17 inches / 27 x 43 cm
FRAME SIZE: 14 x 20 inches / 35 x 50 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Sydney Lemos was the son of painters William and Mabel Lemos. He studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art. After service in World War One, he lived in Santa Cruz. In the 1930's, he moved to Alameda. In 1944, he died in Napa, just two years after the death of his father.Sydney was a very good California Impressionist landscape painter. The bulk of his career was between 1920 and 1944 when he died. He went to the San Francisco Art Institute and was friends with Pedro Lemos (no relation) and Maynard Dixon. Sydney's parents Mabel and William were both artists in Santa Cruz. William was the big personality raconteur type and he was one of the first vendors at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. William's sister, who lived in Chicago, was an artist as well.