Mary Maison Antique California Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting Old Vintage 1944

RARE AND FASCINATING ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR DESERT LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY ESTEEMED LANDSCAPE PAINTER MARY EDITH COX MAISON. THIS WORK DEPICTS A SCENIC VIEW OF EARLY CALIFORNIA. COMPRISED OF TALL SCULPTED TREES, EXOTIC PLANTS, AND FOLIAGE BACKED BY AN EARTH TONE MOUNTAIN. THE DETAILS IN THIS PAINTING ARE SPOT-ON AND AMAZING. IT DATES AROUND THE 1940s. MILD PAINT LOSS, AS SHOWN. IT DOES NOT DETRACT FROM ITS BEAUTY IN ANY WAY.

DIMENSIONS: 20"H x 24"W. Mary Edith Cox Maison (1886 - 1954) was active/lived in California, Arizona. Mary Maison is known for Desert landscape painting. Mary Edith Cox Maison was born in Bethlehem, PA, on March 12, 1886.

Mary Cox was educated at the Bishop Thorp School and studied music in Paris and Philadelphia. After her marriage to Charles Buffington ended, she married Frederick Maison.

By the early 1920s, she was living on a ranch in Imperial Valley, CA, with her family. Self-taught, she painted in her leisure when not busy with the ranch and four children.

After 1926 she exhibited widely in the Southwest and, about 1930, settled in Manhattan Beach, CA. As well as a painter, she was also a pianist and songwriter, hosting a joint art exhibition and concert in Tucson, AZ, in 1936. She died in Los Angeles on Jan. Member: Palos Verdes AA; Calif. Philadelphia Art Alliance (solo); Prints Room (Hollywood), 1926 (solo); Tucson Art League, 1929; Santa Barbara Art League, 1929 (solo); Pasadena Art Inst.

1929; Beverly Hills Women's Club, 1929; Artists Fiesta (LA), 1931. California Arts & Architecture list, 1932; Artists of the American West; Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Who's Who in American Art 1940; Who's Who on the Pacific Coast 1947; Women Artists of the American West; LA Times, 1-9-1954 (obit). This item is in the category "Art\Paintings". The seller is "vintagerotty" and is located in this country: US.

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• Artist: Mary Maison
• Unit of Sale: Single Piece
• Signed By: Mary Maison
• Size: Large
• Signed: Yes
• Material: Canvas
• Item Length: 24 in
• Region of Origin: California, USA
• Framing: Framed
• Subject: Landscape
• Type: Painting
• Year of Production: 1944
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Item Height: 20 in
• Style: Impressionism
• Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
• Production Technique: Oil Painting
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Culture: Impressionism
• Handmade: Yes
• Item Width: 24 in
• Time Period Produced: 1950-1959