Antique American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting Alameda California by Edwin C. Siegfried, 1930 Decorative Arts following with a band of

following with a band of walnut 'basket weave' parquetry

The base having a band of taotie mask decoration and then large lappets below also decorated with corresponding larger masks

This particular work is featured in "Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders

the female singing from a songbook

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Antique American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting Alameda California by Edwin C. Siegfried, 1930 Decorative Arts following with a band ofAntique California Impressionist landscape pastel painting on paper, by Edwin C. Siegfried (1889 1955), most likely a scene in Alameda circa 1930. A beautiful Impressionistic painting of a bucolic scene in Alameda with eucalyptus trees along a pathway, with the summer sun in a blue sky lined with clouds, the colors are bright & crisp. The painting is signed lower right, condition is excellent, this lovely impressionistic scene of a bygone California