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![]() North Ligurian Coast (Italy) 1987 |
![]() Catalina Coast, 2000 |
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![]() Orchard Under Gray Skies 1941 |
![]() Newly offered The Arch Laguna, 1973 Laguna Beach, CA |
![]() Milford, sketching plein air |
Milford Zornes was born in 1908. As a twenty-year-old in 1928, he went on a bit of a “walk about." He hitch-hiked across America from his native West, worked on the docks of New York, and after earning his ticket, shipped out for Europe. After his return to America, he settled in Los Angeles, studying art with F. Tolles Chamberlin at the Otis Art Institute and Millard Sheets at the Scripps College. By 1933, he was receiving awards for his watercolors which he produced for the WPA. He won a one-man show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. |
![]() from our Sep , 2013 Newsletter ... Milford Zornes, A Painter of Inflluence at Ukiah's Grace Hudson Museum |
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Excerpt of a Milford Zornes Interview November 1, 2007, part of the Otis Art Institute Legacy Project Milford Zornes attended Otis in 1927. He became a famous California water colorist. Milford was interviewed by Otis students in November 2007. He passed away four months later in late February, 2008. |
He has taught art throughout much of Southern California, including the University of California at Santa Barbara. His works are displayed in many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. |