Mid Century Modern Mixed Media Painting — Day at the Beach by Irma Gertrude Attridge

Wonderful mid century mixed media coastal/figurative in loose/painterly style by Irmal Gertrude Attridge (American, 1894-1962), circa 1950. Signed lower right. Presented in vintage frame under glass (included as-is). Image size: 9″H x 12″W.

Irma Gertrude Attridge was born in Chicago and studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles with Henry McFee and Oscar Van Young. Member of Calif. AC; AEA; Cal. WC. Soc.; Women Painters of the West.

Exhibited: GGE, 1939; LACMA, 1940, 1944 (prize), 1945, 1954, 1955; SFMA, 1942; Oakland A. Mus., 1943, 1952-1954; Ebell Cl., 1943, (prize); Los Angeles Pub. Lib., 1943 (prize), 1946 (prize); Sacramento Mus. Assn.; San Diego FA. Soc.; Santa Barbara Mus. A., 1951; Los A. County Fair, 1951; Los Angeles Greek Theatre, 1951 (prize); Bowers Mem. Mus., 1952 (prize); Pasadena AI, 1953-1955; Denver A. Mus., 1952, 1953; Francis Lynch Gallery, 1953 (solo); Whittier AA, 1954 (prize); City Hall, Los Angeles, 1953 (prize), 1954 (prize); Frye Mus., Seattle, Wash., 1957 (prize); Simone Gallery, 1958 (solo); Kramer Originals, 1960 (solo).
Serving as President of the California Water Color Society in 1966, Irma Attridge was born in Chicago and settled in Beverly Hills, after graduating from Los Angeles High School and studying at the Chouinard Art Institute. She married a man whose last name was Beamish, and began exhibiting watercolors in Southern California by 1966.

Her work is in the Bowers Museum, the Los Angeles Public Library and the Frye Museum in Seattle.
Irma Attridge was President of Women Painters West from 1949-1951.

Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, California Watercolors, 1850-1970

WPW was founded in 1921, and in addition to exhibitions, the organization provides scholarship funds for art students, art supplies for children, in addition to other philanthropic activities. Other past presidents of WPW include Mary Swan, Nell Walker Warner, Evylena Nunn Miller.

Barbara Frankel Past Pres. Women Painters West.