Lydia's Art: The California Collection

Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere

Lydia writes of Tahoe: "Today I have seen my first mountain lake. It was celestial. It went far beyond my wildest dreams!"
-- c1926
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
Go HERE for the 2021 "California Desert Art" story by Palm Springs' Ann Japenga "Prairie Fire: Lydia Sohlberg Deere Discovers the Desert"

- OIL -

- San Gabriel Mountians near Palm Springs -

- OIL -

- Rugged California Coast Line -

Looking North - Up the Coast

- OIL -

Looking South - Down the Coast

- OIL -

- Pacific Ocean Waves -
[1]

- OIL -

- 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 -

- Sierra Nevada Lookout -

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

- 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.

- San Gabriel Mountians near Palm Springs -
"Desert Palms"
1930

-- LITHOGRAPH -

For The Sketches of California, with some of Texas and Arizona, go HERE.

 For "The Kansas Collection," click on the painting.

For "The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Collection,"
click on the painting.

- Lydia Sohlberg Deere -
1873 - 1943

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