Oil Paint

Soft pastel blue California mountain landscape with desaturated green trees in the foreground. Signed in the lower right corner. Hung in an ornate gold frame.

Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers. Bickerstaff passed away in 1954.

H 11.5 In. X W 13.5 In. X D 1.25 In.

H 8 in. x W 10 in.