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Aaron Bastian
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Kathy Wong
Senior Director, Fine Art
Frank Coburn (1862-1938)
signed 'Frank Coburn' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 1/4 x 30 1/4in
Footnotes
The Pacific Mutual Life and Accident Building still stands along South Grand Avenue at 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles.
In Bradley J. Delaney's book Frank Coburn: An Early Los Angeles Painter, he writes: 'Coburn's tonal style is particularly evident in his remarkable Los Angeles street scenes in rainy weather, in the evening or at night, or in a combination of both conditions. Urban subjects in general are extremely rare within Southern California plein air paintings, and representations of city streets in the rain or at night-time rarer still. The French Impressionists had occasionally painted city streets in rainy weather, but very seldom at night. Childe Hassam and other American Impressionists had done vistas of city streets in rainy weather, or in evening or night-time, illuminated by artificial light.'




















