Henrietta Shore

Henrietta Shore made the present drawing, Rocks, Point Lobos, the year of her move to Carmel, California, in 1930. Alongside her friend and fellow artist, the photographer Edward Weston, Point Lobos, became a fruitful painting location of hers, and is now part of a California State Marine Reserve. Shore employed rich, evenly built-up colors, and utilized the closed-cropped view of rock forms to exude a sense of stillness characteristic to much of her oeuvre. The present work typifies Shore's method of abstraction, which integrated her traditional European fine art training with a keen focus on elements of the natural world, such as shells, flowers, rocks, and roots.