EDWIN BREWER OIL PAINTING Start Price USD 3,500.00 Current Price USD 3,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 6,500.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, July 06, 2008 End Time Sunday, July 13, 2008 Location camarillo, CA See more about 'EDWIN BREWER OIL PAINTING' Description TITLE:  OUR LADY OF MONTECITO CHURCHMEDIUM: OIL ON CANVASSIZE: 30" X 40" SIGNED: LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER BY THE ARTIST EDWIN BREWERPAINTING RECENTLY CLEANED AND FRAMED BY CURRENT OWNEREDWIN BREWER born Little Rock Arkansas.   1927-2002In the studio of his father, Adrian, and his grandfather, Nicholas both renowned American artist, is where Edwin Brewer began studying all aspects of painting.  At the age of twenty, he went to Florida to study with Jerry Farnsworth for four years.  He spent summers studying with Hilton Leach at the Amagansett School of Art.  At the conclusion of these studies he won a foundation grant to the Institute de Allende in San Miguel, Mexico.  He also had the honor of studying under distinguished artists James Whitney, James Pinto, Alfaro Siqueiros and Rico Lebrum.In 1969, Brewer was on of 50 artists to be  selected by the U.S. Marine Corps as a combat artist in Vietnam, recording his impressions of the people and landscape.  The paintings and lithographs he produced there are still exhibited today in museums and libraries throughout the country, circulated by the Smithsonian Institutes traveling exhibition service.  The paintings are documented in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.For the last 20 years of his life he lived in Santa Barbara, California.  Since the early 1990's he had numerous one man exhibitions in Santa Barbara.This Painting, OUR LADY OF MONTECITO CHURCH is one of the two paintings that survived from the original series of 6 paintings that were commissioned by the Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara in the early 1970's.The rest of the paintings were stolen many years ago and where abouts unknown to this day.The current owner purchased the paintings from the Delphine Gallery  in 2007 when the Biltmore Hotel went through a restoration and put them up for sale with the Delphine Gallery that exhibited Brewer's work originally when he was alive.The paintings are in perfect condition and are true collector pieces unique to Santa Barbara. Place a Bid!