Judith Deim (Barbara Stevenson) Modernist painter & muralist. (1912-2006). 1930's, W.P.A Federal Arts Project commissions. 1940 SF Palace of the Legion of Honor. 1941 The SF Museum of Art, solo show. Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 1945, solo show, Manhattan, high praise from NY Times critics, "a new and promising talent". 1946, Carmel Art Association's 1st solo show. 1948 The SF Museum of Art, 67th Annual Exhibition of Oil, Tempura & Sculpture. Major shows in New York, California & Mexico. National Biennial of Mexico. "This Side of Eden", Calif. 2001 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, "The Passage of the Muse". Isadora Duncan Dance Award. 2002 75th Anniversary Historical Exhibition, Carmel Art Association. 2005-Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists. 1989 & 2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in Calif:1786-1940. America's Distinguished Artists, a national registry of historic artists. Art in America by Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman. The WPA Guide to the Monterey Peninsula by Page Stegner, WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern Calif.-1989. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: a biography by Jackson J. Benson-1984. Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin by David L. Witt-2002. Understanding Modern Art: The Boundless Spirit of Clay Edgar Spohn by David Beasley-1999. View by Charles Henri Ford. El Palacio: A Weekly Review of the Arts & Sciencies in the American Southwest. Govt. & Art: A Guide to Sources in the Archives of American Art-1995. Arts Magazine-1935. Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA, Getty Art History Information Program, College Art Association of America-1991. Paintings, Matthew Barnes, Barbara Stevenson, Wood Forms by Cornelia Chase by CA. Rotunda Gallery (SF-1948) Catalog of an exhibition held Oct. 5-30, 1948. JUDITH DEIM: PAINTINGS & WORKS ON PAPER by Court Gallery (NY, N.Y.)-1985. Ghost Bird: The Life & Art of Judith Deim, Sundance Film Festival Documentary.

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Untitled 1959 Figurative Oil Painting By Listed Artist Judith Deim (Barbara Stevenson) with Figurative Oil Painting By Carmel Artist Victor Di Gesu on Reverse - Unframed Artwork

Measures 30" x 23.5" Unframed

Signed J. Deim and dated '59

Signed Figurative Oil Painting by Carmel Art Association Victor Di Gesu on Reverse

John Steinbeck & Deim were close friends. He encouraged her to move to the Monterey Peninsula and this was painted during the years she spent there.