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Classification:Art Objects
Object Number:499-2-4
Object Name:painting
Title:Chalk Lettuce (Cotyledon pulveruienta)
Date:1956
Subject:Chalk lettuce wildflowers
Description:Large, many leaved pale green succulent with leaves gradually getting smaller towards center. Four shoots extending upward from plant. Three grey stems with heart shaped green leaves and one brown shoot. Among striped rocks of grey, brown and green. Blue sky with billowing white clouds. I.D. Marks: Name of plant lower right in pencil.
Medium/Materials:watercolor on paper
Dimensions:Image: 74.5 x 54.5 cm. (29 11/32 x 21 15/32 in.)
Framed: 93.98 x 63.5 cm. (37 x 25 in.)
Inscriptions:Signed lower left in pencil, "Jane S. Pinheiro 1956."
Park Unit:Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (SR)
Artist:Jane S. Pinheiro, 1907 - 1978
Collector:Wildflower Preservation Committee