A collection of letters and color samples from Lawrence Wallin to the printer Ernest F. De Soto regarding the lithograph "Broad Water Lilies" and "Sunlight through the trees".

Los Angeles: 1979-1980. 4 Als and 7 watercolor samples to the to the printer Ernest F. De Soto Ernest De Soto edition numbers 87-88.Exhibited works in solo shows at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, Green Apple Gallery, Las Vegas, Centennial Galleries, Westlake, California, Bolen Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Senior Eye Gallery, Long Beach, California, Peter Nahum, London, Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, California, Montecito (California) Public Library., Karpeles Manuscript Library., Santa Barbara, California, Art Angles Gallery, Orange, California, Oliver & Espig, Santa Barbara, others.Group shows include Litton Center Visual Arts, Los Angeles, Meridith Hunter Gallery, Santa Fe, Fine Arts Gallery, Durango, Colorado, Robertson Galleries, Riverside, California, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, Svit Ozor Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum Natural History, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.Bringing together the tradition of 19th century epic landscape painting with modern minimalism is Southern California artist Lawrence Wallin. Entire forests in deep silhouette, monumental mountains and cascading waterfalls fill the larger than life canvases that immediately greet the viewer who has the fortune to visit his studio, with its sweeping views of the Santa Barbara vicinity. In fact, it is often the latter which forms the basis of his creative spirit.Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto .