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Original Watercolor Illustration by Duval Eliot Baking Housewife Dad NewspaperThe original watercolor art measures 12 3/4\" X 8 3/4\"We have no additional provenance for the item.We purchased the item from an old costume designers estate in Hollywood Ca.It is still in overall very good condition.You will receive both the ad and the water color.There is also another watercolor on the back. See photos.SOLD AS IS & AS PICTURED.$9.95 USPS Priority Mail in the US & Global Worldwide ShippingPlease check out the additional ads we purchased byDuval Eliot from this estate.Thanks for looking.If you have any further questions, please ask.HW-1
About the artist:Duval Eliot
\"Duval Eliot (1909-1990) Duval Eliot was born in Arkansas, and at a young age moved with her family toCalifornia.After going to Hollywood High School for a while, she attendedThe Los Angeles Trade Technical College(then known as Frank Wiggins Trade School), studyingCommercial Art and Design.While there, she began her art career as amen’s fashion illustrator. Then, because of her immense interest in art, on graduatingJune 19, 1930, immediately enrolled inArt Center Schoolin Los Angeles. She studiedlandscape painting(watercolor and oil),portrait, andillustrationwithBarse Millerand life drawing withJoseph Henniger.AtArt Centershe continued studyingall facets of commercialartand simultaneously worked at theColumbia Advertising Agencydesigning newspaperlayoutsandfashion illustrationsfor the major Los Angeles department stores such asI. Magnin,The Broadway,I. Miller,Wetherby Kayser, andSak’sin Beverly Hills, etc.
During this period,Duvalmet and fell in love with a fellow artist,Don Eliot, who was teaching sculpture atStickney Art Schoolin Pasadena part time while attendingArt Center Schoolon ascholarship.OnMarch 31, 1934they eloped to Kingman, Arizona to bemarried,and then to the Grand Canyon for a camping honeymoon, thus embarking upona life-long artistic collaboration.
In1937,Duval Eliotwas asked toteachfashion illustrationandlayoutatArt Center Schoolin Los Angeles, her class was arequired part ofthe curriculum. Shetaughtstudents to understand how todraw figures with fashionable attire. In 1941 she resigned her position at the Art Center in order to raise a family. Although shewas invited to resume her teaching careerat any time.
Throughoutthe 1940’s,Duvalcontinued to amassa large body ofwatercolor landscapesof Southern California and the West, while illustrating forJ.J.Hagarty.Commercially, her prime focuswasfree-lance illustration,which could be created with a young child in tow, finding interesting work at the “Western Family Magazine,” for whom she did illustrations for over ten years. She also illustrated children’s storybooks and textbooks forMacMillianandL.W. Stinger publishing houses. While also creatingFashion Advertisementsandbillboardsin full color forPhelps & Terkelfor several years, and also billboards forSilverwoods Department Store.For this work,Duval received theWestern Art Directors Award in 1946.
During thepost World War II years,Duvalhoned her fine art techniques.Shestudiedwith suchnotable artistsas:Barse Miller,Hardie GramatkyandEjnar Hansen(watercolor) and also with Hansen, (landscape & portrait painting in oil).In1948she won1stPrize at the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Exhibition at The Greek Theater in Griffith Park for her watercolor entitled“End of the Trail”.Her competition includedFrancis De Erdely, Lorser Feitelson, Conrad Buff, James Couper Wright, Frode N. Dann, Joshua Meador, Dan Lutz, and Charles Payzant.
She alsostudied paintingwithConrad Buff,J.C.Wright, designand abstract paintingwithLeonardEdmonson, 2 years in acrylicwithGuy MacCoy, andsilk-screen serigraphy withMario De Perentes.Duval also became close friends withMilford Zornes.
When the freeway took their property in 1954,The Eliot\'s built their studio “dreamhouse” in Whiting Woods, La Crescenta, which was featured in Sunset Magazine.Here,Duvalfinally had the “space”to producean enormous body ofsilk-screenserigraphs.Also during this period, she became interested in theancient art of enamelon copper, studying withJean Buckley.
After experimenting with the powdered glass at extremely high temperatures, she began utilizing herextensive art backgroundandtransformed what previously was considered “craft” intoa 3-dimensional art form. Forging the copper into bas-reliefs andsculpture.Her numerous and sometimesenormouspieces were used by many well-known architects and designers of the time, such asWelton BeckettandAdele Faulkner.Her enamel and hand-forged work ranged from small decorative pieces to large architectural panels for which she was commissioned by The Lytton Savings and Loan building on Sunset Blvd. (over 140 different designs), among others.
Duvalbecame active in “The Southern California DesignerCraftsmen”(S.C.D.C.)(as recording secretary, publicitychairman, and on the jury of admission for two years).Shewon many awardsandexhibited extensively throughout the 1950’s and1960’s atBarnsdall Municipal Art Gallery,Pasadena Art Museum(paintings and enamels},Gallery 333on La Cienega, as well as colleges, demonstrating watercolor techniques, enamel techniques and even silversmithing (lost wax-casting).
Duvalwas also anactive member, and on the board of “The Pasadena Society of Artists”, ”The Los Angeles Art Association”, and “Women Painters ofthe West”.
In the mid1960’sDuvalrenewed herart teaching careerwith the city ofGlendalein its public art program at theirFreemontCraftCenter. There she taught enamel on copper, life drawing, watercolor, and silversmithing (Native American, traditional and modern).
Throughout the1970’s and1980’sDuvaltaughtlife drawingandadvanced techniqueinwatercoloratThe Brand LibraryandArt Center. Resigning in1987at the age of78, afterteachingfor23 years(1964 to 1987).\"_-california watercolor
