Watercolor on paper, signed at lower left, presented under Plexiglass in a later frame.

Sheet 12 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.; Frame dimensions 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.

Gamble started his art training early at the San Francisco School of Design and then made the customary pilgrimage to Paris for art study at the Academie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He returned to San Francisco but his career was put on hold as the city recovered from the devastating 1906 earthquake, which destroyed Gamble’s studio. He decided to move south to start fresh, but when he got to Santa Barbara the beauty of the landscape and town captivated him, and he stayed there and resumed his painting.

Throughout his career, Gamble focused on creating paintings of native wildflowers across scenic vistas in and around San Francisco and Santa Barbara. He filled his canvases with fields of vivid lush flowers in an Impressionist style.


Toning and creasing to sheet; surface abrasion in lower right quadrant; tear to sheet at tree line in lower center of composition; scattering foxing; sheet has been taped to mat board with masking tape.