AW097 - Dey de Ribcowsky - Oil on Canvas

TITLE: Red Rock Country

FRAME: Original Arts & Crafts Frame - 4-3/4"

COMMENTS: Dey de Ribcowsky (American 1880-1936). A well-traveled artist for his time period, Dey de Ribkowsky was born in Bulgaria and at age 13 began art studies in Paris and then continued in Florence, Italy and St. Petersburg, Russia. From there he went to Buenos Aires, where in 1904, he founded the Academy of Beaux Arts. 

In 1910, Ribcowsky came to the United States and traveled extensively throughout the country including Arizona where he painted the Grand Canyon. In the 1920s, he settled in California, and in 1936 died in Los Angeles.

Ribcowsky is primarily associated with marine work but also explored other subjects.

This painting dates to the early 20th Century and is signed lower right D. de Ribcowsky.