About the Artist

"A landscape and marine painter, Joseph Mendez is a native of Spain and emigrated to the United States in 1962 after a successful career in commercial art. He has lived in California for over thirty years, settling in Culver City from where he has had a successful career teaching and painting including workshops in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Scottsdale Artists' School. Mendez studied with the Famous Artists Schools in Westport, Connecticut and was a scholarship student of the late Russian master Sergei Bongart. He has won a Gold Medal at the Society of Illustrators Show and the 1995 Grumbacher Gold Medal in 1995 and has also earned awards of excellence from the Salmagundi Club. Mendez became a signature member of The National Oil Painters of America." Excerpted from www.AskArt.com