Vintage Louis Macouillard SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Watercolor Print

Menu from the SS Monterey cruise ship/Luxury Ocean Liner

SS Monterey was a luxury ocean liner launched on Oct 10, 1931. Monterey was the third of four ships of the Mats. During World War II Monterey was used as a troopship operated by Matson as agents of the War Shipping Administration (WSA).

This original vintage piece comes in an MCM wood frame - glass front - and is in very good condition

Measures 18” x 15”

Purchased from a private estate this original art called SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Watercolor by Louis Macouillard is one of a series vintage collection of cruise ship dinner menus for the S.S. Mariposa which set sail from San Francisc in 1932.

Louis Macouillard (1913-1987) was born in San Francisco California, studied California college of arts and art students league of New York. His paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s depict local cityscape scenes of the bay area. He exhibited them with the 13 watercolorist group at a local art gallery and in annual museum shows. During World War II he was stationed in the South Pacific and produce many watercolors, some of which appeared in life magazine. After the war, he continued to paint representational transparent watercolor paintings of cityscape scenes in landscape subjects in the Sonoma County area.