Carl Oscar Borg - El Molino Viejo. San Marino - Oil on Board 1920s P3112

  A real charmer by a quintessential California painter. Measures 9 3/8" x 13 3/8", frame is 14" x 18". Carl Oscar Borg, protégé of Phoebe Hearst, friend of personalities like Edward Borein, Thomas Moran and Charles M. Russell, could create any subject in any medium, and do it well. He was most successful and highly regarded during his lifetime, receiving numerous awards and medals.In the annals of American art history, Carl Oscar Borg belongs to the group of artists including Joseph Sharp, E. Martin Hennings, Walter Ufer, Victor Higgins, and Oscar Berninghaus. Borg belongs also to the group of American artists who came to California at the turn of the century to record the California landscape---artists like Marion and Elmer Wachtel, Hanson Puthuff, and William Wendt who taught him painting techniques. Borg's works are included in many major museum, university, and private collection throughout the United States.Borg succeeded in preserving America's cultural heritage by documenting t