This mid-late 20th century watercolor on paper still life entitled In The Woods (Buttercups & Baby-Blue Eyes) is by Mary Barnaš Pomeroy (1921-2010), a German-born California painter. She was a published botanical illustrator in Quito, Ecuador, where she lived and studied until 1946. Pomeroy studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art from 1946-48 and worked as an illustrator at UC Berkeley before moving to Carmel Valley in 1956. She exhibited and traveled widely throughout the U.S., plein air painting in Carmel Valley, especially Soberanes Point, Point Lobos, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Pacific Grove, with her husband, Frederick Pomeroy.
March 1983 Watercolor on Paper 15"x22" unframed
Initialed at the bottom in the image area. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Good vintage condition.