Sierra Fantasy

 

Ray Bertrand

  1909 - 1986 (biography)

1940  

lithograph 

9 5/16 x 12" image 

pencil, lower right 

96 of 150  

pencil titled, lower left 

illustrated on page 7 in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday March 10, 1940 

ivory Warren's Oldestyle watermarked wove 

published 

San Francisco Chronicle, Contemporary Graphics, this was from the first series of signed prints and was offered in the Chronicle on Sunday, March 10, 1940 

BEPA106 

SOLD

"Sierra Fantasy" was the third of five prints offered by the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, March 10, 1940, in their first series of Contemporary Graphics on Sunday. According to Arthur C. Painter, Bertrand was primarily a landscape artist, and he worked toward developing the essential character of his subject. He seldom ever sketched on the scene, but rather, absorbed the atmosphere then in the studio developed the "feel" which the scene creates. "Sierra Fantasy" represents no place in particular, but is rather a composite impression of rugged-serenity developed from many trips to the High Sierra.