TitleShore Patterns
Artist
Philip Latimer Dike
(American, 1906 - 1990)
Date1952
MediumWatercolor, gouache, pen, ink and traces of graphite
DimensionsSheet size: 22 7/16 × 29 3/4 in.
Mat size: 29 × 34 in.
SignedSigned in ink at lower right center: "Phil Dike '52"
MarkingsArches paper stamp upper right corner
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 4, 1953
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number43-W
Label TextPhilip Latimer Dike attended Chouinard Art Institute in the late 1920s, before moving to New York and continuing his studies at the Art Students League. After returning to California, he began working as an illustrator at Walt Disney Studios. In 1947, he and Rex Brandt founded the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting, further perpetuating the California watercolor tradition.
