Lot 9: Francis John McComas (1875-1938) Monterey Twilight 26 1/8 x 34 3/4in overall: 31 3/4 x 40 3/8in US$ 10,000 - 15,000

Francis John McComas (1875-1938)
Monterey Twilight signed and dated 'Francis McComas 1902' (lower left)watercolor on wove paper26 1/8 x 34 3/4inoverall: 31 3/4 x 40 3/8inPainted in 1902

A copy of the documentary on DVD, Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage, hosted and narrated by Clint Eastwood, accompanies the lot. Provenancewith Perlmutter Fine Arts, San Francisco, California.Collection of Penny L. Perlmutter and Alfredo F. Fernandez, San Francisco, California.Private collection, San Francisco, California.ExhibitedCarmel, The Carmel Art Association presents an exhibition of works by the Botkes, the McComases, the Seidenecks, August 4 - September 6, 1988, no. 83.Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum; Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Monterey, Monterey Museum of Art, Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 [traveling exhibition], February 17 - May 21, 2006, June 18 - October 1, 2006, October 21, 2006 - January 21, 2007, and February 3 - April 29, 2007, respectively.LiteratureEugen Neuhaus, The History and Ideals of American Art, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1931.Ruth Westphal, Plein Air Painters of California: The North, Irvine, Westphal Publishing, 1986, p. 113, half page color illustration.Botke - McComas - Seideneck [exh. cat.], Carmel, Carmel Art Association, 1988, n.p., full page color illustration.William H. Gerdts, Art across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting in America, 1710-1920, Vol. 3 (The Far Midwest, the Rocky Mountain West, the Southwest, the Pacific), New York, Abbeville Press, 1990, no. 3.213, p. 276, half page color illustration.William T. Cartwright and Julian Ludwig, Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage [documentary], June 1994.