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Born in Iowa and raised in California, Orpha Klinker was an illustrator, printmaker and painter. She attended the UCLA Art School and Cannon Art School and studied under Paul Lauritz and Anna Althea Hills. She later studied at the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Paris. Following her studies Klinker moved to New York where she pursued a career in illustration. She then moved to Philadelphia to work for Ladies Home Journal. Returning to California, Klinker developed a series of portraits and |
conducted talks titled "Speaking of Pioneers". Her research led her far afield into the deserts of California, Utah and Arizona where she painted the Grand Canyon and created etchings of the desert, her favorite source of inspiration. She designed a series of historical scenes on china plate, which have since become collector's items and in 1939 she designed the official seal of Los Angeles county. She was a member of the California Art Club and Women Painters of the West. |
| Road to Dreams -- c. 1930-35. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated An Aquatint 100 and No. 17 in pencil. Image size 11 7/8 x 8 15/16 inches (302 x 227 mm); sheet size 14 3/8 x 10 15/16 inches (365 x 278 mm). A fine, rich impression in brown-black ink, with full margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Illustrated in Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980, Ebria Feinblatt and Bruce Davis, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. SOLD |
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