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IN THE GARDEN – 24" x 20" – oil on canvas– 1922 – Laguna Art Museum Collection

Biographic Information:

Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985)
Born: Oahu, Hawaii, 1891 Died: Los Angeles, California, 1985

Mabel Alvarez arrived in Los Angeles in 1909. Though still in high school, she was already interested in painting and gained much from Los Angeles High School instructors such as James McBurney. She displayed her talent in several areas including architectural rendering, interior decorating and figurative painting.

Alvarez later studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. She exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alvarez was a member of the Pasadena Society of Artists.
 
Exhibitions:

Pasadena Society of Artists
2002 April 6-June 16
75th Annual Diamond Jubilee Exhibition,Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena CA

 
Organizations:
Pasadena Society of Artists
 
Collections & Works Held:
Collection of Adamson-Duvannes Galleries
Collection of Janet L Alvarez
Laguna Art Museum
 
Known Works:
In The Garden, thumbnail of an oil painting by Mabel Alvarez  

1922

In The Garden
24" x 20" – oil on canvas

Laguna Art Museum Collection


Self Portrait, thumbnail of an oil painting by Mabel Alvarez  

1923

Self Portrait
19.5" x 23.375" – oil on canvas

Collection of Janet L Alvarez

Dream of Youth, thumbnail of an oil painting by Mabel Alvarez  

1925

Dream of Youth
30.25" x 58" – oil on canvas

Collection of Adamson-Duvannes Galleries
 
Sources:

Biographical information excerpted from “75 Works 75 Years Collecting The Art Of California” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Copyright 1993, Barry M. Heisler, Author.

“In The Garden” image from “75 Works 75 Years Collecting The Art Of California” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Copyright 1993, Promised Gift of Nancy Dustin Wall Moure.

“Self Portrait”, Collection of Janet L. Alvarez.

“Dream of Youth”, courtesy of Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, California; images from “Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 Exhibition Catalog; Patricia Trenton, Editor; Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California, in association with the University of California Press; Copyright 1995.