California Plein Air Painting of Hills over Mission San Miguel by Listed Artist

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California Plein Air Painting of Hills over Mission San Miguel by Listed Artist:
$250.00

Offered is an antique plein air oil on canvas painting by listed California artist Marion Coleman (1867 - 1950). Titled: \"San Miguel Hills\" which might be the hills near the Spanish Colonial Mission San Miguel. Canvas measures:21.5\" x 18.5\" and 29.5\" x 26\" with frame included. Wonderful pastoral outside scene showing cattle grazing in what we can assume is the spring due to the color of the grass. Gorgeous use of colors. Please ask any questions you may have before offerding.

Marion Coleman

Marion E. Drewe was born in Sydney, Australia on March 6, 1867. She began her art studies in Sydney and continued in Paris and London. Arriving in northern California in 1900, she lived in San Francisco and Oakland with interludes in Martinez (1907), Eureka (1909), and La Jolla in 1918 when she worked for the Scripps Biological Institute. After her marriage to Rufus A. Coleman in Virginia City in 1906, she became a serious painter of western subjects such as the Comstock mines, the Hoopa and Klamath tribes of Humboldt County, the Hopi of Arizona and various other Indian tribes of the Southwest. Mrs. Coleman died in Oakland, California on April 16, 1950. Exhibited: Grafton Gallery (London), 1890s; Royal Art Society (New South Wales), 1890s (President\'s Prize); California State Fair, 1901-02; San Francisco Art Ass\'n, 1906; Piedmont Art Gallery (Oakland), 1907; California Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; Sequoia Club (San Francisco), 1916. Works held: San Jose Historical Museum

San Miguel is home to theMission San Miguel Arcángel, founded on 25 July 1797. Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. It is located at 775 Mission Street, San Miguel, California, in San Luis Obispo County. The mission remains in use as a parish church to this day. After being closed to the public for six years due to the2003 San Simeon earthquake, the church re-opened on December 22, 2009. Inside the church are murals by Esteban Munras. Father Presidente Fermin Francisco de Lasuen founded the mission on July 25, 1797, making it the sixteenth California mission. Its location between Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission San Antonio de Padua provided a stop on the trip that had previously taken two days. In 1803, the mission reported an Indian population of 908, while its lands grazed 809 cattle, 3,223 sheep, 342 horses and 29 mules. That year\'s harvest included about 2,186 fanegas of wheat and corn (A fanega was about 220 pounds). Most of the mission burned, while still being developed, in 1806. It was rebuilt within a year. On July 15, 1836, the Mexican government secularized mission lands, including Mission San Miguel, and Ygnacio Coronel took charge. In 1846, Governor Pío Pico sold the Mission for $600 to Petronillo Rios and William Reed. Reed used the Mission as a family residence and a store. In 1848, Reed and his family were murdered, leaving the Mission vacant for a period of time. The Mission was a stopping place for miners coming from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and was consequently was used as a saloon, dance hall, storeroom and living quarters.

In 1859, President James Buchanan returned the Mission to the Church. In 1878, after 38 years without a resident padre, Father Philip Farrelly became the \"First Pastor\" of Mission San Miguel Arcángel. Through all the years the priests kept the church in condition and it is called the best-preserved church in the mission chain today. In 1928, Mission San Miguel Arcángel and Mission San Antonio de Padua were returned to the Franciscan order. Since then, the Mission has been repaired and restored, and has one of the best-preserved interiors (which gives one of the best examples of old mission life). For many years, the Mission served the town as an active parish church of the Diocese of Monterey..