Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Age: Circa 1950's
Painting Size: 12" x 16"
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 23"
Artist: Phil Dike (1906 - 1990)
Signature: Lower Right
Condition: Great Condition
Frame: Well Matched Frame
Subject: Shore Scene
Style: Impressionist


You are bidding on a beautiful American watercolor painting "Shore Scene", this piece was created by the listed artist Phil Dike (1906 - 1990), in circa 1950's, its watercolor on paper, in great overall condition for its age, signed lower right, details please see photos below.

Biography from the Archives of askART

Biography photo for Phil Dike

Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield.

He was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his childhood because his grandmother, Eliza Twigg, was a painter. He first studied art in high school with Mary Louise Arnold whom Dike later described as so sombre and dressed in such heavy shoes that she looked "like Washington crossing the Delaware" (Edan Hughes).

In 1924, he began his art education at Chouinard Art Institute* in Los Angeles, and in 1928 went to the Art Students League* in New York where he studied with Frank DuMond and George Luks. He traveled throughout Europe and studied for a year, 1930, in France at the American Academy of Fontainebleau, and exhibited at that time at the Paris Salon.

He returned to Los Angeles where he taught at Chouinard's for twenty years and also worked in the fine art department of Walt Disney Studios where from 1934 to 1944, he was Color Coordinator and worked on animated classics including Fantasia and Snow White. He was the first artist to put color into Disney animations*.

Please forgive us about the light reflections may show in the photos, the colors of the photos are very close to the actual painting.

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