Monterey Coast, c. 1930

Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.

Courtesy of Jonathan Art Foundation

After studying art in Barcelona and traveling to the Philippines and Cuba, Spanish-born Angel Espoy emigrated to Northern and Southern California and made paintings in the period style of California Impressionism and en plein air (out of doors), exalting the beauties, colors and textures of nature. This popular land/sky frame of reference is ubiquitous in art history, and as such has helped to define the provincial dimensions of human ontology.