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Guy Rose
(b. 1867, San Gabriel, CA - d. 1925, Pasadena, CA)
LAGUNA ROCKS, LOW TIDE
c. 1916, Oil on canvas, 21 x 24 inches
Jonathan Art Foundation collection
Purchased with major funding from the Jane Lauman Trust
Guy Rose occupies a unique position among California's early landscape painters. One of the few born in California, he was also the most dedicated disciple of French Impressionism, having trained in the academies of Paris, having met Monet, and having lived and painted in Giverny, the mecca of French Impressionism. His influence was later recognized as a major factor in the development of the Impressionist style among California's painters.
This painting depicts Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach, California, near the Montage Hotel.