BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 01:24 AM
While visiting a friend in a super posh retirement home in La Jolla, I saw a wall full of these incredible watercolor paintings of the California
missions.
I think you will like these, and I wish we had some for Baja.
I see that I posted these by accident under "questions" and I am not sure how to change that. HELP!
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BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 01:26 AM
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BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 07:25 AM
David K - 4-8-2019 at 08:31 AM
They are very nice.
In Baja, only 8 stone missions are original and intact. Others have vanished with modern churches on the site or are ruins with a few having
foundations preserved.
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bajaguy - 4-8-2019 at 10:22 AM
Blanca - Any indication of who did the artwork or where they were purchased??
BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 02:26 PM
Thanks for fixing the thread, it was bothering me that I posted in the wrong place.
Here is the info on the painter, I meant to add it so thanks for asking for it.
BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 02:32 PM
Casa de Mañana is the retirement home where my good friend and mentor from college days is staying. We should all be so lucky: it is so beautiful,
in front of La Jolla ocean and only costs - please sit down and take a deep breath (this is what she told me to do as she prepared to tell me) - it
costs a mere six thousand five hunrid dollas. A month!
Do you have any idea how many kids I could sponsor with that?????
I had lost touch with her and it was great to see her still working at 91! Yup, she still gets taken to the office.
gueribo - 4-8-2019 at 08:17 PM
One early painter of the Alta CA missions was Alexander F. Harmer (1856–1925), a resident of Santa Barbara.
"Mission San Luis Rey"
"Santa Barbara Mission"
"Cold-blooded murder of an Indian, Feb. 23rd, 1824"
(The date refers to the Chumash revolt at Missions Santa Inés, Santa Barbara, and La Purísima.
BajaBlanca - 4-8-2019 at 11:41 PM
Boy! What a big mission that one was!
volcano - 4-10-2019 at 06:49 AM
very special collection of gorgeous watercolors!