RICHARD GABRIEL CHASE

(American, 1919-2007)

BREAKING SURF, SAN DIEGO

Gouache and graphite on board

22 x 27¾ Inches

Signed lower left

Richard Gabriel Chase was born in Massachusetts and first studied at the Worcester Art Museum School, later earning his degree from Massachusetts College of Art.  After serving in the Army during WWII, he moved to southern California where he continued to paint, exhibit and teach life-drawing and portraiture at San Bernardino College. Chase favored painted landscapes, still lives and coastal scenes as well as large-scale, historical murals which remain installed in numerous public locations in Southern California.