Mexico Sketches Made on the Spot - 20 signed prints

. Los Angeles: self-published. Fine. 1970. Ltd ed. of 25 sets. Each plate signed by the artist . 20 b/w printed plates, 8-1/2x11, each pencil signed by the artist . Limited to 25 sets in decorated portfolio. . ritz” Kocher (1904 - 1973), was a German born painter who reloc ated to Los Angeles in 1929. He received a number of awards both in his native Germany and from California arts groups. Group exhi bitions included the California Arts Club [1935-1937); Society fo r Sanity in Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor [San Fr ancisco, 1945]; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles [1947, 1954]. Early European exhibitions were held in Dresden - 1925, Karlsruh e - 1928, and Freiburg - 1929. He was a fellow of The American Ar tists of the West and life member of the American Institute of Fi ne Arts. He generally painted in oil; his subjects included arch itecture/buildings; coastal view/shoreline; landscape and marine. . port; Wikipedia. . early so with a few small smudges. Laid in is a letter of presen tation from Kocher’s widow to Alfred Stendahl of the Stendahl G alleries in Los Angeles. Until its recent closure, the Stendahl G allery was one of America's oldest continuously operating private art galleries and a major provider of avant-garde works to major institutions throughout the world. .