Kazuo Matsubara - 'Chapel Through the Trees'
A delightful landscape oil painting by Japanese-American artist Kazuo Matsubara titled ‘Chapel Through the Trees’.
Matsubara was born in Hawaii in 1895. By 1912 he had moved to San Francisco, California. Matsubara studied at the California School of Fine Arts under John A. Stanton, Frank Van Sloun, and Lee Fritz Randolph, and was active in the San Francisco art scene in the 1920s and early 1930s. He was known to create landscapes and portraits. He exhibited his works at several art venues of the time, including the Society of Etchers, 1919, 1920, the Delphian Clubs, 1921, the EastWest Art Society, 1922, the San Francisco Art Association, 1923-28, and the Oakland Art Gallery, 1928.
Matsubara died in Tokyo, Japan in 1932.
This work dates from the 1920s, and is an oil on artist’s board.
It measures 18 x 21.5 inches sight size, and 22 x 25.5 x 1.5 inches overall, including the framing.
Housed in a wonderful vintage frame of the period.
Signed lower right.
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