LARGE 70s GEOMETRIC ABSTRACT LA JOLLA OIL BY ELISE DONALDSON - WPA LISTED
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LARGE 70s GEOMETRIC ABSTRACT LA JOLLA OIL PAINTING BY ELISE DONALDSON - WPA LISTED/CALIFORNIALarge original oil on canvas by Elise Donaldson " 1970 " ( 1887 - 1980 ) : canvas size; 48 inches x 32 inches :La Jolla Museum Rental Label verso by Elise Donaldson: title # 6612:consignment # 185: framed in its original circa 1970 white painted 1/4 inch wide wood slat frame.Exhibition Label verso exhibition #31: title or description #6612, title" Diamond Square on Black & White Striped Around ": frame size: 48 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches :Born in Elkridge, MD on Oct. 3, 1887. Donaldson was educated at Bryn Mawr and studied art at the AIC, with Leon Kroll and with André Lhote in Paris. She was a resident of Chicago and painted for the WPA before moving to San Diego about 1940.A spinster, she died in La Jolla, CA on April 1, 1980. Member: Chicago Society of Artists; Nat'l WC Ass'n; San Diego Art Guild. Exh: AIC, 1934 (prize); PAFA; SFAA, 1943; Calif. WC Society, 1943; Library of Congress, 1945; Laguna Beach AA, 1945-46; La Jolla Art Center, 1940: 1970s.Donaldson's Modernist representational early works influenced by her studies in Paris and by Lhote ( from her WPA period ) evolved in the 1970s to significant thickly painted geometric abstractions. She was also an accomplished lithographer and watercolorist. Her works were exhibited at numerous museums
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