California Sycamore, 1940 Ken Potter and former museum director and

and former museum director and curator Donelson Hoopes

Dorothea Cooke

and the late twentieth-century "idea" artists who champion personal

out buildings

Painted on a trip around the world commissioned by Life Magazine

California Sycamore, 1940 Ken Potter and former museum director andA California fine art gicle print on premium watercolor paper. The Western Sycamore lithograph appeared as the cover of the May 1940 Westways issue. In Southern California these Sycamores were originally found in the South Coast Ranges along the streambeds and northward through the Sierra foothills and the San Joaquin valleys as far as Tahama County. They have become a popular shade tree in Southern California and can be seen as transplants in many