American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles by Charles Smith, 1930 Decorative Arts The chest made of solid

The chest made of solid elm and of diminutive size and is richly carved throughout with chip and gouge-carved geometric decoration of concentric circles

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American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles by Charles Smith, 1930 Decorative Arts The chest made of solidA very attractive California Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Charles L. A. Smith, "California Highlands", dated 1930. This very attractive large painting by one of the foremost of the California Impressionists depicts a bucolic landscape with trees to the foreground and two cottages nestling between and mountains to the background. The painting is signed and dated lower right, the painting is also titled "California Highlands" to the stretcher