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A Home in the Desert 1893 – 1940
VALENTINE MORSE: A Home in the Desert 1893 – 1940 Summer 2009 COVER: A Home in the Desert 1939 20 x 26 inches Oil on Board Signed & dated lower left
924 Paseo de Peralta, Suite 9 Santa Fe, NM 87501 tel. 505.982.1533 www.addisonrowe.com
GALLERY, LLC
1. Pueblo Scene, 10 x 14 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower right
VALENTINE MORSE was born in Oregon in 1893 unique style, preferring to paint small format oil paintings and due to ill health was sent to New Mexico to recuperate. While there she became fascinated with the Southwestern desert landscape and its beauty. At that time she began a lifetime of learning how to paint landscapes, still lifes and portraits of the land and people around her. She did not have an instructor or teacher and developed her own
on board so she could pay close attention to the detail of flowering plants and adobe buildings of the desert. In the 1930’s she moved to San Diego and set her studio up in Balboa Park’s Spanish Village – an area where many important early San Diego artists lived and worked. An unfortunate accident took her life in 1940.
2. Desert Scene #1, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
3. Desert Scene #6, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower left
4. Desert Scene #3, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
5. Desert Scene #2, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
6. Desert Scene #5, 5 3/4 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
7. Desert Scene #7, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
8. Desert Scene #4, 5 x 6 7/8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
9. Desert Scene #8, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
VA L E N T I N E
M O R S E
A Home in the Desert COVER: A Home in the Desert, 1939, 20 x 26 inches, Oil on Board; Signed & dated lower left
$ 4,800.
1. Pueblo Scene, 10 x 14 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower right
$ 3,500.
2. Desert Scene #1, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$ 1,750.
3. Desert Scene #6, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower left
$ 1,750.
4. Desert Scene #3, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$ 1,750.
5. Desert Scene #2, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$ 1,750.
6. Desert Scene #5, 5 3/4 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$ 1,950.
7. Desert Scene #7, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$
8. Desert Scene #4, 5 x 6 7/8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$ 1,250.
9. Desert Scene #8, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left
$
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924 Paseo de Peralta, Suite 9 Santa Fe, NM 87501 tel. 505.982.1533 www.addisonrowe.com
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