🔥 RARE Antique Old California Plein Air Desert Landscape Oil Painting BAILEY 45

Description: This is a lovely and RARE Antique Old California Plein Air Desert Landscape Oil Painting on artist board, by early California female Impressionist painter and renowned educator and Los Angeles civil rights activist Helen Miller Bailey (1909 - 1976.) This work depicts an early morning scene in Trail Canyon Falls, with delicately rendered yucca plants, powder blue mountains, and finely painted desert foliage. Signed: "Helen Miller Bailey" in the lower right corner, Additionally, this work is titled and dated on the verso: "Yucca in Trail Canyon 6 miles above the floor of Big Tujunga Canyon...May 1945." Approximately 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 12 x 16 inches. Very good condition for 80+ years of age, with light scuffing and edge wear to the original period frame. This pioneering individual's paintings are very scarce, and this is the best example to ever be offered for sale. Acquired from an estate collection in Long Beach, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Helen Miller Bailey Helen Miller Bailey (20th century) is known for Painting. Helen Miller Bailey was a resident of Los Angeles in 1941. Member: LA Art League.Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"Ferdinand Perret Files The life of Helen Miller Bailey, teacher, artist, author, community activist, social reformer, wife, and mother, is as inspirational as it was ardently lived. Today’s authors of purportedly new concepts of living a purposeful life, inspired work, and authentic leadership could have been writing about Helen Miller Bailey, though she died nearly half a century ago. Those who witnessed the intensity with which she approached teaching and mentoring, justice, world travel, and Latin American studies describe just how Doc Bailey instilled these ideals in her students who honor her today with a legacy of service and leadership. OverviewDr. Bailey served as chair of the Social Science Department from 1946 to 1973. She was an expert in Latin American History and often traveled to Mexico. She contributed immensely to the Sociology and Political Science disciplines. She published many books, and her photograph and art collections were research sources in several fields. The college library was named after her in recognition of her life's work. Dr. Bailey was tireless in promoting the interests of Latinx students and the community at large. Her efforts to get the state to improve the quality of education for Chicanx students date back to the early 1950s. She was a member of numerous social service organizations in the community and she raised thousands of dollars in scholarships, enabling needy students to pursue a college education. Through her instruction and mentoring, she inspired a generation of leaders coming out of the East Los Angeles area, including former US Ambassador Julian Nava and attorney Antonia Hernandez. This scholarship was created to further her guidance of Latinx students, but students of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The selection criteria are based on the 'model' set by Dr. Helen Miller Bailey. Panel discusses former ELAC instructor By Darlene GalvanHelen Miller Bailey’s influence was remembered during a book talk with Rita Joiner Soza and a panel of guest speakers April 4 at the S2 Recital Hall.Soza read from her book “Helen Miller Bailey: The Pioneer Education and Renaissance Woman Who Shaped Chicano(a) Leaders” and provided a summary of Bailey’s influence from Chapter 14.Soza spoke of six of Bailey’s former students who fought for the civil rights of 10 out of thousands of women affected by the “Asexualization Act” of 1909.Among those students, CoFounder of Telemundo, Frank Cruz and former deputy California attorney general, Richard Avila spoke on the panel.Women were being sterilized at the LA County Hospital with no consents signed. “If some of the forms (were) signed they were only in English not Spanish, and the patients did not read English,” said Soza.LA County General Hospital won that trial because at the time Judge Curtis, who handled the lawsuit, said poor minority women in LA County were having too many babies, Soza told the audience.Licia Hurst was one of six on the panel at the book talk. Although Hurst never met Bailey, she is an expert on the films Bailey made during her world travels.Some of Bailey’s films were shown at the beginning of the event. University of Southern California has 49 of Bailey’s films, and according to Hurst, East Los Angeles College donated them to USC in the 1990s without being aware of the instructor’s work mixed in with items that were included with Vincent Price’s work.Soza said she wrote the book because she, “woke up one day and thought someone ought to write a book about (Bailey) and her life.”Bailey had an impact on many of her students, as four members on the panel were students of hers when she taught at ELAC during the 1940s to 1970s, and several more of her students were in the audience.The panel agreed that Bailey taught with liveliness through the use of her films and costumes during her years at ELAC.“I want to have more programming. This book talk is going to be very casual. People can buy the book, meet and greet, we’ll have a reading and panel,” Instruction Librarian and Library Chair Erika Montenegro said.“In 2012, I met Rita Soza during the re-opening of the renovated library and we started talking about her book on Helen Miller Bailey and on how we could introduce it to the ELAC community,” Montenegro said.Bailey started at ELAC when the school was established. “Helen Miller Bailey taught Latin American Studies at ELAC and, because there weren’t any textbooks about Latin studies back then (1932-1974), she wrote one,” Montenegro said.Moderated by Montenegro, the panel consisted of US Ambassador Dr. Julian Nava, co-author with Bailey and co-founder of Telemundo Frank Cruz, Licia Hurst, California Bar Board Richard Avila, author Rita Soza and ELAC Social Sciences Department Chair Dr. Marcel Morales.The panel shared that Bailey would dress in costume when she taught. She also made 900 paintings that she sold to raise money for her students and for scholarships.“She took films, and edited them to tell a story. She brought people into the world with her films,” said Hurst.“Helen Miller Bailey was a renaissance woman. She traveled the world, made films of her travels, painted, photographed, wrote. She was an academic and social archivist,” said Montenegro.The book talk followed with Soza signing autographs for fans in the lobby.The event was sponsored by ELAC’s Helen Miller Bailey Library and the Social Sciences Department. AROUND TOWN: By Anita Susan Brenner We were at dinner with some law school friends. I was holding forth about indicators of hospital quality (“Good gift shop = good hospital”) and the candidates (“Good SNL skit = good president”), when the subject came up.The subject: Helen Miller Bailey. Perhaps you’ve heard of her. There’s the Helen Miller Bailey Library at East Los Angeles College, the Helen Miller Bailey scholarship and the Helen Miller Bailey Legacy Foundation.Helen Miller Bailey, PhD, was a historian, a mentor and an educator. She encouraged kids from East L.A. to go to college, to go to grad school and to run for office. She inspired working class kids to go forward.Our dinner companions that night were Richard and Armida Avila. Richard is a classmate from the UCLA School of Law, now retired from his first career with the state Attorney General’s office. Richard was inspired by Helen Miller Bailey not only to go to law school, but to follow his heart. A published author, Richard is now in his second career as a history professor at two junior colleges. His goal: to inspire the next generation, just as Helen Miller Bailey inspired him.His wife, Armida, a retired college educator, is also into her second career. This year, she founded wHealthy Living to provide the Hispanic community with new ways of dealing with difficult diagnoses.As for Helen Miller Bailey (1909-1976), her biographer, Richard Soza, wrote, “Why is her memory so powerful after all these years? This petite, fiesty blonde addressed simply as ‘Doc Bailey’ by many of her students, and known as ‘Dona Elena’ by an entire Oaxacan village, sewed seeds of idealism and human dignity in the minds of thousands of young people from 1930 to 1976.“In 1930 Helen Lorraine Miller earned a master’s degree in history from University of California at Berkeley, supporting herself by waiting tables at night. She was hired to teach junior high school in the barrios of East Los Angeles She soon met and fell in love with a science teacher at Roosevelt High School, Henry Morle Bailey. They married in June 1932. She spent the next two years working on her PhD in history at University of Southern California“Helen Miller Bailey began to help her young Mexican American students. She collaborated with a Catholic priest in El Monte, California who identified high potential young men and funneled them to Dr. Bailey who got them enrolled in classes. She worked tirelessly to secure part time jobs for these young men and finding scholarship monies to ensure they were able to complete this first chapter in their education.”At dinner, Richard explained that long before this sort of social activism was fashionable, “Doc” Bailey battled for equal opportunity. She and her husband bought a home in La Cañada. Over the years, hundreds of students, including Richard, came to La Cañada, to the Baileys’ house for dinners and discussions.The Helen Miller Bailey Scholarship was created to further her guidance of Hispanic students, but students of all backgrounds may apply.May the circle be unbroken.

Price: 975 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-08-26T17:20:34.000Z

Shipping Cost: 25 USD