Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
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Lydia writes of Tahoe:  "Today I have seen my first mountain lake.  It was celestial.  It went far beyond my wildest dreams!"
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Lydia's Art
-  The California Collection  -
1919 - 1938

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- S o u t h e r n   C a l i f o r n i a -

- Santa Monica Beach -
Ila Sohlberg;  Frances, Lois, and Nina  Sohlberg Fry
c1927

- OIL -

- Santa Monica -
1018 23rd Street
Frances and Lois Fry
c1930

- OIL -

​- San Gabriel Mountains near Palm Springs  -
Lydia's Title

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Go HERE for the 2021 "California Desert Art" story by Palm Springs' Ann Japenga
"Prairie Fire: Lydia Sohlberg Deere Discovers the Desert"
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- San Gabriel Mountians near Palm Springs  -

- BLOCK PRINT -

- San Gabriel Mountians near Palm Springs -

​- Rugged California Coast Line -

Looking North - Up the Coast

- OIL -

Looking South - Down the Coast

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- Pacific Ocean Waves -
[1]

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- Pacific Ocean Waves -
[ II ]

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- N o r t h e r n   C a l i f o r n i a -

- Lake Tahoe -

- WATER COLOR -

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 Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
Post Card
c1926

Lydia writes::  "Today I have seen my first mountain lake.  It was celestial.  It went far beyond my wildest dreams."

Jennie was Lydia's oldest sister.

- Sierra Nevada Lookout - 

- OIL - Courtesy of the Sohlberg - Eason - Weinmann Family

* Note also that, other than this last painting,  the photographs of these paintings were from an inferior camera.  Some were taken on-the-run with Lindsborg owners of Lydia's art  while I was visiting for  a few days to check up on Peaceful Acres ("The Old Deere Farm"), never realizing then that I would be using these photographs on a website later in life.

For The Sketches of California, go HERE.

- Lydia Sohlberg Deere -
1873 - 1943

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