Abel WarshawskyEarly 20th Century Pebble Beach Surf Seascape by Abel Warshawsky 1920

Significant and period early 20th century Plein Air seascape painting of crashing surf at Pebble Beach by listed California artist Abel George (Buck) Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962), c.1920. This original painting is a classic Carmel seascape featuring the beauty and power of the Pacific ocean waves crashing on coastal rocks that this California coastline is famous for.

Signed “a.g. warshawsky” lower left.
Presented in giltwood frame.
Image size: 20″W x 24″L.

Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1883, Warshawsky spent his youth in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from the Art Institute there. At 17, he won a scholarship which took him to New York City where he continued his studies at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design under Loeb and Winslow Homer.

He traveled to Paris for further study and became so enchanted with France that he spent the next 30 years there and gained great renown. For his contribution to the arts there he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor and a member of the French Society of Intellectuals. With WWII threatening, he left France and settled in Monterey, California. He died there of heart failure on May 30, 1962.

Member:
Cincinnati Art Club; Paris Allied AA; Carmel AA.

Exh: Salon D’Automne (Paris); NAD; Cleveland, 1914 (1st solo in U.S.); Braun Galllery (NYC), 1916; American AA of Paris (NYC), 1922; Anderson Gallery (Chicago), 1923; Rembrandt Gallery (NYC), 1925; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1940; Gump’s (SF), 1942.

In: Frye Museum (Seattle); De Saisset Museum (Santa Clara); CPLH; Akron Art Institute; Cleveland Museum; CGA; Minneapolis Art Institute; San Diego Museum; Monterey Peninsula Museum; Luxembourg Museum (Paris); De Young Museum; Petit Palais (Paris); LACMA.