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A Home in the Desert 193920 x 26 inches Oil on Board Signed & dated lower left

VALENTINE MORSE:A Home in the Desert1893 – 1940

Summer 2009

GALLERY, LLC924 Paseo de Peralta, Suite 9Santa Fe, NM 87501

tel. 505.982.1533www.addisonrowe.com

VALENTINE MORSE was born in Oregon in 1893and due to ill health was sent to New Mexico to recuperate.While there she became fascinated with the Southwesterndesert landscape and its beauty. At that time she began alifetime of learning how to paint landscapes, still lifes andportraits of the land and people around her. She did nothave an instructor or teacher and developed her own

unique style, preferring to paint small format oil paintingson board so she could pay close attention to the detail offlowering plants and adobe buildings of the desert.

In the 1930’s she moved to San Diego and set her studio up in Balboa Park’s Spanish Village – an area wheremany important early San Diego artists lived and worked.An unfortunate accident took her life in 1940.

1. Pueblo Scene, 10 x 14 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower right

2. Desert Scene #1, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

4. Desert Scene #3, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left 5. Desert Scene #2, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

3. Desert Scene #6, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower left

6. Desert Scene #5, 5 3/4 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

7. Desert Scene #7, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

8. Desert Scene #4, 5 x 6 7/8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

9. Desert Scene #8, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left

COVER: A Home in the Desert, 1939, 20 x 26 inches, Oil on Board; $ 4,800.Signed & dated lower left

1. Pueblo Scene, 10 x 14 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower right $ 3,500.

2. Desert Scene #1, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 1,750.

3. Desert Scene #6, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed: lower left $ 1,750.

4. Desert Scene #3, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 1,750.

5. Desert Scene #2, 6 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 1,750.

6. Desert Scene #5, 5 3/4 x 8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 1,950.

7. Desert Scene #7, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 800.

8. Desert Scene #4, 5 x 6 7/8 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 1,250.

9. Desert Scene #8, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on Board; Signed lower left $ 800.

924 Paseo de Peralta, Suite 9Santa Fe, NM 87501

tel. 505.982.1533www.addisonrowe.com

GALLERY, LLC

V A L E N T I N E M O R S EA Home in the Desert