Wayne LaCom (b. 1922) California Watercolorist & Scene Painter *Sullivan Goss seeks to acquire works by this Artist

Wayne Lacom is a master watercolorist who began making images of the American Scene in the mid 1940s and whose work evolved to incorporate other modernist ideas over a sixty year career as a professional artist and art instructor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• I. BIOGRAPHY
• I. EDUCATION & SOCIETIES
• III. COLLECTIONS
• IV. EXHIBITIONS
• V. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• VI. WORKS FOR SALE BY THIS ARTIST

I. Biography

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I. EDUCATION & SOCIETIES

1942-1943 Art Center School, Los Angeles

1943 Chouinard Art Institute

1946-1947 Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles

1942-1943 Glendale City College

1950-1951 University of California, Los Angeles

National Watercolor Society, member since 1948, President 1965-1966

Artists for Educational Action

Teacher at High School of Art, California State University, East Los Angeles, 1980's

II. COLLECTIONS (selected list)

Glendale Federal Savings and Loan

Brand Library, Glendale, CA

Security Pacific Bank

Bank of America

Western Airlines

Hawaiin Airlines

Numerous College and Library Collections

Mr. Gene Autry

Mr. Wes Parker

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stowe

IV.EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions (selected list):

1945 Emerson Gallery, Tarzana, CA

Grand Central Galleries, New York, NYFrancis Webb Galleris, Los Angeles, CA Bullocks Pasadena Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1975 Santa Monica Library Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1978 Palos Verdes Art Association Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA

1985 White's Gallery, Montrose, CA

1980s Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA

1996 Village Square Galleries, Montrose, CA

1965, 1970s, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2003 The Village Gallery, Lahaina, HI -

Group Exhibitions (select list)

1940s The California Style Artists at Home & Abroad, 1930-1986 Cuernavaca Museum, Mexico

1940s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, D.F.

1940s Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1950s Los Angeles County Fair

National Watercolor Society Denver Art Museum Oakland Art Museum

1990s Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

2005 National Watercolor Society Member's Show

31st Annual Catalina Festival of Art, First Place Mixed Media International Bakersfield Museum of Art

V. BIBLIOGRAHPY (Books & Videos)

1. 1. Brommer, Gerald. Transparent Watercolor. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1973.
2. 2. Brommer, Gerald. Exploring Painting. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1973.
3. 3. Falk, Peter Hastings, Ed. Who Was Who in American Art: 1564-1975. Madison, CT: 1999.
4. 4. Grumbacher, M. et al. Palette Talk. New York: 1960s.
5. 5. McClelland, Gordon and Last, Jay T. The California Style: California Watercolor Artists, 1925-1955. Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest, 1985.
6. 6. McClelland, Gordon and Last, Jay T. California Watercolors - 1850-1970. Santa Ana, CA: Hillcrest, 2003.
7. 7. Perine, Robert. The California Romantics, Harbingers of Watercolorism. Encinitas, CA: Artra, 1986.
8. 8. The Creative Hand. Video, Los Angeles Unified School District, c. 1960s.
9. 9. Who's Who in the West. Chicago: Reed Reference Publishing, 1996.