Abstract Pastel of Cliffs and Mountains

John Greathead, California

Circa 1920 | Pastel on Paper | Item 2294

John Greathead was an American painter born in Philadelphia who settled in California in 1918. He worked as a field engineer and exhibited his art in California.

To whom it may concern:

The abstract pastel drawing was done by step grandfather, John Greathead, circa 1920, in Vallejo CA. He was an archeologist, as well as a painter. He exhibited in Calif. at San Francsico Art Center in 1935 and at the Golden Gate Internation Exposition in 1939. He was my father’s second wife’s father.

Pat (Cain) Halford

This work is unsigned and not dated other than the letter as written above.