For sale is an original oil on canvas board painting by the California artist Gene Grant. Grant was a noted California artist who also worked on Hollywood movie sets. He created the paintings in the 1951 hit movie “An American In Paris” for the American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) who played an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. This painting features a supreme and mighty California Cypress tree standing tall along the pacific coastline in Carmel California looking out towards the Monterey Peninsula. The painting has its original Associated Artists of America Gallery label on Lexington Ave NYC on the reverse. It’s titled “Carmel Cypress” on the label. It is signed by the artist in the lower left. It is framed in a wonderful hand carved wooden picture frame. The frame is probably a Heydenryk picture frame. Could use a light cleaning but shows wonderfully. Frame – 31 1/2″ x 25 1/2″. Painting – 24″ x 18″. Gene Grant created background paintings for the 1951 film, An American in Paris. Los Angeles artist represented at fifth biennial exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, at the Virginia Museum of Art, LAT, March 24, 1946, page B 4; in group exhibition. Of Artists Equity Assn. At Esthers Alley Gallery, LAT, March 28, 1948, page C 8; repro of A Field in France and artist now in Paris, and exhibited at Associated American Artists Gene Grant is the second Los Angeles artist this season to return from a stay in France and to exhibit paintings of Paris. Grants first one-man show is at Associated American Artists Galleries, 9916 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, to February 4. Grant painted the older sections of Paris in delicate blue greys Paintings of streets and towns on the Riviera. Three paintings of San Francisco, and a large group of drawings. LAT, January 15, 1950, page D 6; Gene Grants paintings of Paris will open at AAA galleries in NY, LAT, December 17, 1950, page D 4; Paintings of Los Angeles People and Places, opens at Fraymart Gallery, Los Angeles, LAT, October 21, 1951, page D 6; Gene Grant, artist for the recent motion picture An American in Paris will conduct a painting class Kann Institute of Art, LAT, February 10, 1952, page D 4; juror at Westwood Art Assn. Fifth annual, LAT, February 17, 1952, page D 4; shows colorful record covers at 14th Annual Western Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, Museum of Science and Industry, LAT, February 22, 1959, page E 6; OMS of paintings at Aaron Brothers, Santa Monica Blvd. LAT, May 7, 1961, page D 19; and other references in the historic LAT(Proquest). Source: Nancy Dustin Moure, Publications in California Art No. The item “Carmel California Oil Painting By Gene Grant. Signed. Carmel Cypress C1950’s” is in sale since Sunday, July 24, 2016. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “upstatetreasures14″ and is located in Kingston, New York. This item can be shipped to United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Bangladesh, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Nicaragua, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Turks and caicos islands, Bahamas, Viet nam, Uruguay, Canada, Sri lanka, South africa, Colombia, Antigua and barbuda, Saint lucia, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman islands, Maldives, Oman, Reunion.

• Signed?: Signed
• Subject: Seascape
• Date of Creation: 1950-1969
• Medium: Oil
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Style: Postimpressionism
• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 30in.)
• Region of Origin: Carmel California
• Painting Surface: Canvas
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Artist: Gene Grant
• Framed/Unframed: Framed