Minnette Leah Frohlich (1906-1985)
California School
WINE BOTTLES AND MUSHROOMS, circa 1960
(#1927)
15 x 21 inches / 25½ x 31½ framed
Watercolor on watercolor paper with watermark that reads lower left:
“Arches / FRANCE”
Signed on the verso in pencil:
“HOWARD MUNNS/Painted by: Minnette L. Frolich (fl.1960-1980)”
(Howard Munns was an artist with whom she was painting
at the time this picture was painted.)
Provenance: The Artist, Minnette L. Frolich
Thence by Family Descent, until 1986
Adamson-Duvannes Galleries,
Downey, California, since April, 1986
Minnette was a gifted still life watercolor artist who exhibited extensively in galleries and museums, not only in California but throughout the United States. In at least one exhibition in 1967, she exhibited with such well known artists as Carl Oscar Borg, Robert Henri, Emil Kosa, Dan Lutz, Roy Mason, Elsie Payne, Herb Ryman and others.