Original Oil Painting Signed Stephen H Willard Color Photo Painting Framed

This Original Oil Painting from Stephen H. Willard offers a captivating mountain lake landscape. Beautifully framed, it adds a touch of elegance and class to any room. Signed and titled “Autumn Landscape”.

Frame measures 28 1/2″ x 36 3/8″
Two nicks in the paint in the upper right corner. Frame in great vintage condition

• Original piece by Stephen H. Willard
• Features captivating mountain lake landscape
• Comes in a beautiful frame
• Perfect for adding elegance to any room

Stephen Hallet Willard (1894 – 1966) Worked in Gelatin Silver Photograph, Textured Screen Prints, Hand-Tinted Photographs, and unique Photo Paintings. Willard’s work in the 1920’s and 1930’s helped in the establishment of the Death Valley National Monument by President Hoover in 1933, The Joshua Tree National Monument in 1936, and The Kings Canyon National Park in 1940.

He was a prolific creator of black and white Real Photo Postcards which he printed himself, as well as becoming one of the most successful contributors of images to the Curt Teich Company in Chicago, who was one of the largest producer of photo-mechanically colored postcards in the world. The promotion of Palm Springs through Curt Teich’s colored postcards helped to popularize Palm Springs to a national audience. His unique work in Photo Painting developed through his experimental mixing of the medium of a grayscale photo enlargement with both translucent, and highly opaque ink and paint media, on specially prepared board. The process he developed over decades of experimentation allowed him to express the colors in nature as seen by an artist’s eye, and to share with the viewer, the feeling that the scene conveyed to the artist himself. He worked prolifically in the creation of these mixed media photo paintings.