Oil Paint

This bright and colorful painting applies abstract color theory to create a luminous landscape. The interesting color pallet and textured brush strokes add to the drama of this whimsical piece. Dolores G Runbeck worked very closely with the world-renown LA based painter Birger Sandzen. She studied under him and learned important techniques and skills from him, and helped carry on his work through her own artistic vision. It is apparent that this painting is almost identical to Sandzen's painting style. Signed in lower right corner. Hung in a brown wooden frame.

Born in Atchison, Kansas in 1898 and died in 1994, Dolores Runbeck was a painter who specialized in floral still lifes, landscapes, religious and symbolic compositions, portraits, and expressionistic abstracts. She studied at Bethany College, Lindsborg with Birger Sandzén and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago School of Applied Art, the Art Students League and was a pupil of Arthur Guptill, Frederick Taubes, Harry Sternberg, and Frank Reilly. She taught at Bethany College from 1926-1929 then established her studio in Lindsborg.

H 29.5 in. x W 18 in. x D 2 in.