An American master of the impressionist style of painting! 

Guy Rose  (1867-1925) received a traditional late nineteenth-century academic art training, first in his native California and later in Paris.  In France, Rose learned the luminous Impressionist painting strategies that he transferred to the Pacific coastal sceneries he painted when he returned to California.

Rose mastered several styles in a variety of subjects, from early still life to intimate figure studies, from picturesque scenes of the French countryside to spectacular views of California's Pacific coast at Laguna Beach and Carmel/Monterey.  Like most painters, he was compelled and fascinated by images without a driving need to articulate the reason in some language other than the imagistic one.  

Rose believed that nature provides its own kind of truth and beauty.  It is important for an artist to be in nature in addition to merely describing nature.  The above painting was done by using a palette knife after I visited the cliffs at the Ranchos Palos Verdes in Southern California.