This is Your Enemy, 1941 Size:Original Size - 11 x 18 inches Inn at Laguna Beach

Inn at Laguna Beach

Vernon Nye

This book is the definitive biography of rediscovered artist Benjamin Newton Messick

and is a Past President of the California Water Color Society

and the California watercolor movement was emerging

This is Your Enemy, 1941 Size:Original Size - 11 x 18 inches Inn at Laguna BeachA California fine art gicle print on premium watercolor paper. Obviously done in response to the war being waged against Japan and typical of the sort of "patriotic art" being produced at the time. Many pieces like this were used by the U. S. Government on posters to encourage war bond purchases or for citizen support toward the war effort. This particular piece is in permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Courtesy of son, Ian Patrick