#48 The Brass Earring – 24x30, Oil, signed
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When
my parents moved from Santa Monica they bought a cramped California mission style house with a red tile roof
on Northfield in The Palisades. The house was not large enough to accommodate
an art studio, so my Father wrote and directed home movies and did
illustrations. In 1952 they purchased the house at 887 Muskingum Avenue. There,
according to my sister Patricia, “He started taking art classes after we moved
to Muskingum. I don’t remember him taking classes before then. He took several
classes at Santa Monica City College and Pasadena Art Guild.”
There are a number of charcoal figure works and pastels portraits, then oil landscape and portraits. Dick signed many early works with, Burg. The big portraits started showing up when he had the convenience of the basement space at Muskingum. The Brass Earring is from around that time or slightly later. Dick used this period to experiment and master oil technique.
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