Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Ohio (1902-1999), Coast at Palos Verdes Peninsula California, watercolor on illustration board, 14"H x 18 1/2"W (sight), 22"H x 29"W (frame)

Lawrence Edwin Blazey Ohio (1902-1999) Coast at Palos Verdes Peninsula California watercolor on illustration board Signed lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Lawrence Edwin Blazey studied under the painter Frank Wilcox at the Cleveland School of Art*, and also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and the Slade School of Art in London. He is best known as a draughtsman and illustrator, with a particular affinity for city and urban views, and also worked as an advertising artist, architectural and industrial designer, ceramicist and product development engineer. He exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art between 1929 and 1957, winning several prizes, and also showed his work at the Corcoran Gallery* in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, and elsewhere, as well as in the National Ceramic Travelling Exhibition of 1954. In later years Blazey taught at the Cleveland School of Art, and also gave lectures on industrial design. Works by Blazey are in the Cleveland Museum of Art and elsewhere. Source: Website of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London 14"H x 18 1/2"W (sight), 22"H x 29"W (frame)