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Samuel Colburn

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Samuel Bolton Colburn (1909 - 1993) was active/lived in California, Colorado.  Samuel Colburn is known for Regionalist landscape, portrait and genre painting.

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 Samuel Bolton Colburn (1909-1993) was well-versed in the progressive modernist directions of the day as well as advanced watercolor techniques. The San Francisco art critic Alfred Frankenstein credited Colburn with a sense of drama and "as fine an eye for the subtleties of watercolor as this country has produced since [John] Marin's heyday."

Watercolor was Colburn's preferred medium.  A prolific painter, he worked quickly outdoors on location, developing a style that was luminous, spontaneous and fluid, though requiring tremendous control of the medium.

Colburn developed his art during the 1930s and 1940s, a period when American Scene artists nationwide shunned abstraction and modernist experimentation and depicted rural and urban views in a representational manner.

Colburn's American Scene art was tempered by a modernist vision. He found early on what it took others decades to find: a reasoned balance between abstract design and realistic delineation, or bet   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9512 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Samuel Colburn


   Keywords 
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
  • American Scene
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • Monterey, Carmel California
Art Association
  • Carmel Art Association
Art Teacher
  • Don Graham
Art School
  • Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Watercolor Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Carmel Art Association-

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