Large 1970s Popo And Ruby Lee Oil On Canvas Painting Of Native American Women Titled Dance
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Location: New Haven, CT
Item #: 239782
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This oil painting by Popo + Ruby Lee depicts two beautiful Native American women, one enjoying the sound of music as the other plays a Native American flute. This is a great example of the artists' style, which involved painting freely on canvases with broad brush strokes in thin oil washes. Gallery style framing enhances the well done painting.
Popo and Ruby Lee are artist-legends on the Central Coast. They met and married during the heyday of counterculture in San Francisco, but worked and lived in Ojai for five years. Both had worked as solo artists before they met, but one day on North Beach, in 1972, a handsome, dark-eyed man said to the pretty, petite Ruby Lee, “Let’s do a painting together!,” and the rest is history. Neither artist was in the habit of signing canvases, until one day in Ojai when the vice president of Disney Productions negotiated for one of their jointly painted canvases, clinching the deal by asking for a signature. So Ruby signed both “Popo and Ruby Lee." Popo painted freely, on white canvases, using broad brushstrokes. Ruby soaked up Popo’s method, combining it with her own, painting spontaneously in thin oil washes. They were represented by the Swanson Gallery in San Francisco and Sausalito.
The painting/frame are in good vintage condition.
The painting is signed/dated "Popo + Ruby Lee 76" lower right. The original Swanson Gallery label is attached to back of frame stating "Popo + Ruby Lee - Titled Dance."
Frame: 50” wide x 38” tall
Sight: 48” wide x 36” tall
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