After-Storm Magnificence (Pacific Grove Shoreline)
1987 Watercolor

#A9366

Mary Barnaš Pomeroy

Entitled After-Storm Magnificence (Pacific Grove Shoreline), this 1987 watercolor on paper coastal rocks & waves scene 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.

December 1987 
Watercolor on Paper
20"x15" unframed

Signed in the lower right. Excellent vintage condition.