Charmaine Girelli

'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract

Signed lower right, 'Betsy Dillard Stroud' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2000. Betsy Dillard Stroud, AWS, NWS, grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia with a family straight from the pages of Tennessee Williams and Noel Coward and began painting at the age of eight. She is a signature member and Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in California and member of numerous prestigious art societies including the Rocky Mountain Watermedia Honor Society, the Western Federation of Watercolor Society, and a former president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society. Stroud was one of 28 American artists from the United States who was invited to exhibit in Nanjing, China in the First International Exhibition of Watermedia Masters in November, 2007. Since 1987, she has judged over sixty-four International, National, Regional, and State Shows including the American Watercolor Society in New York, the National Watercolor Society in California. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the High Winds Medal of the American Watercolor Society, the Edgar Whitney...

Signed lower left, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015. A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid trailing forms in primary and secondary colors, contrasted against a speckled and scumbled, aqua and sky-blue background. A substantial and lyrical work by this largely self-taught, Palm Springs woman...

Signed lower right 'S. Aron' (French, 20th century) and dated 1970; additionally signed, verso, on canvas with old label verso. Provenance: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California.

Signed lower right, "Stonely" for Dorothy Stonely (American, 20th century), titled verso "Redolent" and painted circa 2005. Abstract painting comprising interspersed with spiral cloud forms in aqua, purple, and goldenrod contrasted against a vivid scarlet field . Stonely is a Signature Member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters. She has exhibited widely and with success, including at the Pacific Grove Art...

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