Description

This is a mixed media work on paper by celebrated California artist James Strombotne. Given his resumé we really can't believe that we are able to offer this work at such a reasonable price. Although it is a work on paper, it has the impact of an oil on canvas. We love the white figures overlaying the dark green background -- especially the cheering female nude with her arms outstretched. What is she so excited about, we wonder.  Anyway, if you want to celebrate female power, maybe hang this above your desk.

Details

• James Strombotne (American, 1934 -)
• Figures in White, 1970 
• Mixed media on paper
  
• Signed, lower center
  
• 37" x 36", (overall) 18" x 23 1/4 " (sight)
• Framed in possibly original silver finished wooden frame under plexiglass
• Excellent condition

About the Artist

So we don't leave anything out, this is what Wikipedia had to say:

James S. Strombotne (born 1934) is an American painter. He was born in Watertown, South Dakota, but was raised and educated in Southern California, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1956 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate School in 1959. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to study in Italy, and in 1962 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study in Rome. The same year, a feature article about his work appeared in Time magazine.

Strombotne’s first one-man show was at the Studio 44 gallery in San Francisco in 1956. Since then, he has had over seventy five one-man shows, with twelve retrospectives: four in New York City, twenty-two in Los Angeles, and others in San Francisco, Washington D.C., Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Newport Beach (CA), and other venues. He exhibited in most major group shows in America, including two Whitney Biennials, the Carnegie International and the Corcoran Biennial.

In addition, his work can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is also included in many well-known private collections, most notably the Jack Nicholson collection, which includes twenty of Strombotne's major pieces.

Awards he has received include the Art in America "New Talent Award," and an appointment to the Institute of Creative Arts at the University of California in 1965-66.

Strombotne retired in 2005 from his position as professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside after 40 years of teaching. He continues to paint every day in his Orange County, California studio.