April 17, 2024
VTG 1973 SIGNED ORIG OIL PAINTING CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE BY ETHYL HIXSON
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VTG 1973 SIGNED ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE BY WEST COAST ARTIST ETHYL HIXSON. Ethyl HIXSON (1918-2010) was born in East Rockhill, Pennsylvania. After she graduated from high school in New York City, she traveled alone by train across the country to catch up with her fiancé Ralph who was serving in the Navy and stationed in Bremerton, Washington. After WWII, Hixson and her husband left Washington and entered their adventurous life in Oregon, buying property in the mountains in the Rogue Valley where they raised their three children. It was here that Hixson began her career as an award-winning artist who sold many paintings throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. She served as president of the Southern Oregon Society of Artists and, along with a few of her artist friends, pioneered the first art gallery in Jacksonville. She was also passionate about gardening and served as president of the Central Point Garden Club. In 1969, Hixson and her husband moved to Oroville, California, just north of San Francisco, where she continued her painting and leadership in the arts community, serving as president of the Art Club of Oroville. The oil on canvas painting offered here is a bright and vibrant example of Hixson's California landscape work and depicts a gnarled, windswept cypress atop a hill overlooking the Pacific
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