Chaffey Community Art Association 

Museum of Art

 

 

MILFORD ZORNES  1908 -

 

Milford Zornes was born in Camargo, Oklahoma. He moved to Southern California during the 1920's. There he studied art with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Millard Sheets.

In the early 1930's, he was a member of the California Water Color Society and one of the earliest exponents of the California Style. At this time he painted Southwestern landscape scenes primarily, working on location. These works were exhibited in many shows throughout America and were included in the California Group traveling exhibitions.

During World War II, he was an official US Army war artist and traveled to Burma, India, and China on assignment. Since that time he has traveled all over the world and painted many foreign scenes.

Zornes is well known as an art instructor, particularly in the field of watercolor painting. He has taught at Pomona College, Otis Art Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, Riverside Art Center, and Pasadena School of Fine Arts and in many watercolor workshops since the 1950's. In addition he painted several murals for the WPA during the depression and assisted Maynard Dixon on the Santa Fe mural in Chicago, Illinois. He is a past president of the California Water Color Society, wrote two books on watercolor painting, and has produced illustrations for books and magazines.

Zornes' watercolors are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Butler Institute of Art, National Academy of Design, San Diego Museum of Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, U.S. War Department Collection and Library of Congress Collection.

(Biographical information taken in part from The California Style, McClelland & Last.)

 

 

 

 

Paintings in the Permanent Collection:

 

Morning in the Cayuma

Signed “Zornes 81”, lower left

Watercolor

21” x 29”

dated 1981

1981 gift of artist  

 

 

Monteroso

Signed “Zornes 88”, lower right

Watercolor

28” x 20”

dated 1988

gift of Robert George  

 

 

Source of the Nile at Ginga

Signed “Zornes” lower right

Watercolor

27 ˝” x 331/2”

1988 gift of Robert George and Harlan Polk  

 

 

Over Cayucas

Signed “Zornes 87”, lower left

Watercolor

35” x 25”

dated 1987

 

 


Location (map):

THE J. FILIPPI WINERY, North Wing

12467 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, California  91739

Hours:  Wednesday -  Sunday, 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

 

Mailing Address:

Chaffey Community Art Association Museum of Art

 P.O. Box 3902, Rancho Cucamonga, California  91729

 

 

 


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