Mary Barnaš Pomeroy
This 2003 watercolor on paper botanical still life entitled Floral Chorus 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 2003
Watercolor on Paper
15"x22" unframed
Signed lower right. Titled and dated on the back. Excellent vintage condition. (Iris, Gallardias, Pearly Everlasting, Yarro & Chives)