Smokestack

Josephine Martinelli Landor
Smokestack
1950s
Watercolor on Paper
20" x 13", Unframed
Unsigned

Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history.

Vintage, original, landscape watercolor. Attributed to Josephine Martinelli Landor. Her work was acquired from her estate with many other pieces of her work that were signed. Done on paper unframed measures 20" x 13". Paper on bottom is ripped unevenly.

Jo Landor (1918-2001)

A native of Madera in the San Joaquin Valley, Mrs. Landor studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where she was a student of her husband-to-be, Walter Landor. They were married for 55 years, until his death in 1995.

Together they formed Landor Associates, a firm that later designed the familiar logos for Coca-Cola, General Electric, Shell Oil, British Airways, Dole and General Motors' Saturn Corp.

In addition to her talent as a painter, Mrs. Landor served for more than 50 years as the artistic director for the Anna Halprin Dancer's Workshop, helping design the scenery and costumes worn by the dancers.