John Taylor Arms American 1887-1953
Artist Category: Historical
Gustavo “Gus” Arriola Mexican-American 1917-2008 Joined Carmel Art Association in 1986. “Throughout my career I have tried to maintain a daily awareness of the culture of our Southern neighbor, creating an interest in its art and history through humorous, human interest situations.” Gus Arriola was born July 1917, in the Northern part of Mexico, now … Read more
Frank Ashley American 1920-2007 Joined Carmel Art Association 1970. Frank Ashley grew up in St Paul Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in England during WWII, and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Purple Heart and four Air Medals. He studied at the American … Read more
Helen Barker American 1917-1998 Joined Carmel Art Association in 1958. Painter; preferred subject matter: florals, seascapes and landscapes. Helen Barker was raised in Los Angeles in a talented family, interested in art and music. She studied briefly with Christian Von Schneideu in Los Angeles. Previous Memberships include the Scandinavian American Art Society, Los Angeles, and … Read more
Wah Ming Chang American, 1917-2003 Wah Ming Chang was born to artist parents on August 2, 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He began exhibiting etchings and block prints nationally at an early age. Though essentially self-taught, he was the protege of California artist Blanding Sloan. Chang worked for Disney Studios during the production of Pinocchio and … Read more
Nell Gertrude Walker Warner American, 1891-1970 Nell Walker Warner was born in Richardson County, Nebraska on April 1, 1891. She was educated in Colorado Springs where she began her art studies at age eleven. After graduating from Lexington College, Missouri in 1910, she moved to California to earn a degree from the Los Angeles School … Read more
Janet Ament de la Roche American, 1916-2000 Artist Janet Ament de la Roche was born in Hollywood, California on December 31, 1916. She studied painting at the Otis, Chouinard, and Jepson art institutes in Los Angeles. In 1947 she met and soon married artist Victor Di Gesu. The couple spent four years in Europe doing … Read more
For Peggy Olsen, landscapes were a means of expressing new ways of seeing color, which she loved and used in ways that excite the eye. Her versatility was expressed in a wide range of subjects, with California landscape her specialty. Oil paint was her medium whether she painted on canvas, board or heavyweight paper. After … Read more
Susan Jordan, NWS British, 1939-2013 Susan Jordan was born and educated in England and emigrated to the United States in 1961. She studied watercolor with Herb Olsen in Connecticut, won the new England Award for Watercolor in 1975 at Silvermine, NY, and was elected a signature member of the National Watercolor Society. Susan and her … Read more
Diane Wolcott has gone her own way as an artist. She has been painting since she was a small child and sold her first designs of European peasants in holiday dress to an interior decorator who was unaware that the finished drawings were the work of a fourteen-year-old girl. Ms. Wolcott studied drawing, design, and … Read more