This May 1967 watercolor on paper mountain landscape entitled Arroyo Seco 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.
May 1967 Watercolor on Paper 22"x18" framed, 14"x10"unframed
Signed and dated lower left. Framed in a contemporary solid sanded walnut frame using white archival matting behind conservation clear glass. Excellent condition.