Asilomar Dunes, c. 1940

Oil on Masonite, 17 x 24 in.

Courtesy of Jonathan Art Foundation

Albert Thomas DeRome was a California painter of land, sea and skyscapes around Carmel and Monterey as well as Nevada and Arizona. Among many other artists throughout history, his representations of a land/sky dualism symbolizing all of nature reinforce the notion of provincial reality as an Earth-centered concept tailored to human concerns and desires.