Orange County Fine Art Storage

Hah!, My 8 year old PC could do that! https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863

IT'S OFFICIAL! #OCMAExpand will open on November 3 in a satellite location in South Coast Plaza Village and feature FIVE SEASONS OF ART until our new home is completed in 2021. Read more from Artforum.

Orange County Fine Art Storage has FREE tickets to the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts! Let us know if you would like to go. (not valid on Saturdays). Thank you to Chris Bliss Photography for the tickets.

I am thrilled to have one of the most preeminent artists in Southern California showing at my gallery, the California Fine Arts Exhibition next month. Jon Ng's ...work is truly magical, often mysterious and always intellectually stimulating. Mr. Ng beautifully fights the current trend towards "quick art"... as his work demands a great deal of time, attention and detail. These paintings must be seen up close and personal to fully appreciate his exemplary technique. I will be posting more about Jon and his work in upcoming posts as more information becomes available. The opening will be at 207 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, Ca in the historic Santora building, Suite "P" during the next Downtown Santa Ana Art Walk on June 2nd (roughly between the hours of 6 and 10 pm, but these events have been known to go later). Full information for the event is listed below in the comments, with dates, times and location, and may also be viewed by clicking the following link; https://www.facebook.com/events/1892113531089133/ See more

Emergency Art Pick-Up during Fire Season. Call us and be assured.

Check out a few of the pieces in our "Moods of California" exhibit -- currently on display until February 8, 2018 Museum hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm. Admission and parking is free!

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"Every Cloud Has Its Silver Lining" by Emil Kosa Jr. (1903-1968) Gift from Class of Summer 1942 #emilkosajr #scenepainting #californiascenepainting #GHSartcolle...ction #100thanniversaryproject Biography of the artist: Born: Paris, France Studied: Academy of Fine Arts (Prague), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris), Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles) Member: National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, New York Water Color Club. Emil Kosa, Jr. received art instruction and music lessons at a very early age. When he was in his late teens, he had to decide between being a professional musician or artist. He chose art, but his family and instructors believed he could have been a famous musician had he chosen that occupation. In the 1920s, he moved to California, but returned to France several times to continue his art education. He received traditional painting instruction from Pierre Laurens and studied non-objective painting with Frank Kupka. After settling in California in 1928, he worked as a mural artist and operated a business with his father that produced decorative art for churches and auditoriums. When that line of work was Slow, he took on portrait commissions and sold fine art paintings through local galleries. In the early 1930s, Kosa became friends with Millard Sheets and with Sheet's encouragement, began aggressively pursuing a national reputation as a California watercolor artist. He sent up to sixty watercolors every year to museum shows all over America and was among the first California Style watercolorist whose work brought attention to the West Coast watercolor style. He was an active member of the California Water Color Society and served as president in 1945. Kosa was one of the first of the California watercolorists to be accepted into annual shows in New York City at the National Academy of Design and in the American Watercolor Society shows. To financially support his family, Kosa worked as a scenic artist in the special effects division at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios for thirty-five years. He produced art for matt shots and was known as a top artist in this field. The motion picture industry acknowledged his contributions and awarded him an Oscar for his special effects work for Cleopatra. A compulsive painter, Kosa would often paint for three or four hours after dinner each night and spend most of his weekends outdoors, painting with watercolors or oils. Alexander Cowie was his Los Angeles agent and the Macbeth Gallery sold his work in New York City. The Cowie Gallery, located in the Biltmore Hotel, had several one-man shows every year and included his work in all of their group showings. Through his studio connections, he also produced a large number of commissioned portraits for movie stars, businessmen and politicians. In the 1950s, he was known as the premier portrait painter in Southern California. His official portrait of Earl Warren from this era, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Kosa is best known for his representational watercolors and oils, but also won awards for pencil drawings and pastels depicting figurative subjects and prints. During the 1940s and through the mid-1960s, he occasionally revisited his interest in non-objective art and produced a body of work which expresses his love for music and experimental art concepts. Source: Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last, California Watercolors 1850-1970 whose information was based on interviews with Elizabeth Kosa, George Gibson, and Marian Kosa Saund, 1988.

Historical Collections Council tour

Part of the 10 year $350 Billion weapons deal included a painting. I believe that it was the tipping point for the sale.

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