Snow Cloaked Pine Tree Before Southwestern Vista

Loren Mellendorf

Snow Cloaked Pine Tree Before Southwestern Vista, Paintings by Loren Mellendorf
  • Mellendorf painting
Savvy Price $450.00
Gallery Price $650.00
Title
Snow Cloaked Pine Tree Before Southwestern Vista
Artist
Loren Mellendorf
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Canvas size
16" height X 20" width
Frame
Gold finished wood fillet, linen wrapped liner, gold finished wood molding
Frame size
23 1/2" height X 27 1/2" width
Signed
"Loren Mellendorf" at viewer's lower right
Date of creation
Circa 2010
Condition
Painting is in excellent condition, as is frame.
Provenance
Donated by the Mellendorf family to Halo, a non-kill animal shelter
About The Snow Cloaked Pine Tree Before Southwestern Vista

Mellendorf's appreciation of the land, clean and clear, is expressed in his painting.  Rain is angling down in the distance.

About Loren Mellendorf
(1925-2019)  American   A prisoner of war at age 19 in Germany, Mellendorf earned his CPA and subsequently worked as an auditor for Peat Marwick Mitchell for ten years.  Mellendorf subsequently retired as Executive Vice President, President of the American Water System as well as its Chief Financial Officer.

He and his wife moved to Arizona in 2011.  At the age of 76, this corporate gentleman began oil painting.

Of note was Mellendorf's contribution to a publication State of the World 1986  A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society.  Mellendorf's noteworthy comment addressed "pricing water below its true cost is tantamount to . . . "  To read this rather astonishing assessment addressing ecological decline, water efficiency, rangeland management, oil dependence, electric power reformation, nuclear power plants, tobacco banishment, investment in children, reversing Africa's decline and redefining national security, it is available to read if you pair "Loren Mellendorf" and "State of the World 1986"  on Google
Cultures

USA, Arizona

Medium

Paintings

Subject

Landscapes, Southwestern

Keywords

Loren Mellendorf, Mellendorf painting