"This painting was done for Fortune magazine when Dad was a pictorial reporter covering the Mississippi flood
and I want to run up and look at the antiques to see what they have
and the plume of smoke relates to blasting and milling activities
was a resort full of people from the city using the recreation facilities during the day
Feeding the Swan, 1940 Landscape Art "This painting was done forFeeding the Swan, 1940, a limited edition stone lithograph by Ben Messick. Exhibited: California Scene Paintings 1930 1960, Pasadena Museum of California Art, March July, 2013. California Scene Paintings 1930 1960, The Irvine Museum, January 18 May 18, 2014. Literature: Windows in Time, California Scene Paintings from the Hilbert Collection, by Mark Hilbert and Jean Stern.