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Title:MARION PIKE California artist Still Life with Bowl of Flowers & Vessel oil

Description:MARION HEWLETT PIKE (1913-1998-California Artist - Painted many notables and movie stars). Still Life with Bowl of Flowers and a Vessel, 16" x 20" oil on canvas (framed size: 22-1/2" x 27") signed lower right. Nicely framed. Condition: Some light brown spots on the back of the canvas do not affect the front. There is also a book on the artist that is being sold on Ebay.
Born on a ranch in Hopland, CA on Aug. 14, 1913. Marion Hewlett grew up and made her debut in San Francisco. She majored in Oriental art while at Stanford University and later studied at the Imperial University of Tokyo. After her marriage to John Pike in 1935, she settled in Los Angeles and established a studio in Hancock Park. Many notables sat for her including Coco Channel, Norton Simon, Zubin Mehta, Rosalind Russell, Bob and Delores Hope and Ronald Reagan. (Her portrait of Reagan was on the cover of Time magazine.) In 1955 she was named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Mrs. Pike died at her home in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 1998. Exh: CPLH, 1955 (solo); Laguna Beach Fesitval of Arts, 1955. In: LA County Music Center. Source: Askart; Edan Hughes.

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