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Reno,NV - Washoe County - 1930 - Old Mining Dump Watercolor :

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Reno,NV - Washoe County - 1930 - Old Mining Dump Watercolor :
This watercolor titled "Old Mining Dump" by Minerva Lockwood Pierce is circa 1930. The watercolor is 13 1/2" x 19," housed in original frame sized 20" x 26." Some staining on lower left corner of matting. Pierce was motivated by California painter Lorenzo P. Latimer to paint Nevada scenes. She helped found the Latimer Art Club in 1921 and the Nevada Art Gallery--now the Nevada Museum of Art. She exhibited in Reno at the National League of Penwomen, the Latimer Art Club, the Nevada Art Gallery, the University of Navada Library Gallery, and the Nevada Art Association. In the Bay Area, she exhibited at the de Young Museum, the Legion of Honor, and the Oakland Art Gallery. She also took part in the Third Annual Exhibition of American Art at Rockefeller Center in New York City in 1938.