California Scene Painting is defined in Wikipedia as "a form of American regionalist art depicting landscapes, places, and people of California. It flourished from the 1920s to the 1960s."
One of its leading practitioners was Emil Kosa Jr, whose paintings are featured in this post. Born in 1903 in Paris, his family moved to the U.S. and then to Czechoslovakia in 1912. Returning to the U.S. in 1921, Kosa moved to California where, in 1933, he joined the newly formed special effects department at 20th Century Fox where he was soon named art director, a position he held until his death in 1968.
In 1964, Kosa won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on Cleopatra and is credited with designing the famous logo of 20th Century Fox.
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