Summer Landscape by Elsa Warner (1900-1988) Mixed Media on Board Venini Popular shapes included boxes and

Popular shapes included boxes and photo frames

blending traditional Eastern iconography with a classic European silhouette

Wymer consistently explores "contrasts and contradictions

at the universities of San Francisco State and Berkeley

subtly integrated into the sculpture's surface

Summer Landscape by Elsa Warner (1900-1988) Mixed Media on Board Venini Popular shapes included boxes and37W x 47H x 1 1 2"D A vibrant and structurally complex work by mid century California artist Elsa Warner, Summer Landscape represents a bold departure from traditional scenic painting into the realm of textural abstraction. This mixed media composition on board showcases Warners experimental sensibility, developed during her training at the influential Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Rather than a literal depiction of nature, Warner