Lot 76: HENRIETTA M. SHORE (1880-1963)

Rocks, Point Lobos, No. 1
signed 'H. Shore' (lower right)--signed again and inscribed with title (on an artist's label affixed to the reverse)
colored pencil on paper
12 x 17 3/4 in. (30.5 x 45.1 cm.)

An early California Modernist, Henrietta Shore sought to express through her art "... ambitious metaphysical themes.... Much like Arthur Dove, Shore seems to have incorporated the teachings of Eastern philosophy with a study of Theosophy to construct an abstract aesthetic that distilled the universal 'spirit harmony' or 'life rhythm' underlying natural things." (S. Landauer, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, Berkeley, California, 1995, p. 27)