This 1984 watercolor on paper landscape entitled Granite Mountains at Sunset, (Granite Cove) 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.
February 1984 Watercolor on Paper 20"x15" unframed
Signed lower right, titled and dated on back. Good vintage condition with small pinholes at the edges of the paper.