Albert Thomas DeRome (1885-1959) Pinnacle Rock Fire Station and Bear...

Albert Thomas DeRome (1885-1959)
Pinnacle Rock Fire Station and Bear Buttes (a group of two)
each signed 'A. DEROME' (lower left) and titled and dated '1927' and '1920' on remnants of the original backing boards (affixed to the reverse)
each watercolor on paper
first sight 7 1/2 x 10 in., second sight 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.
first framed 18 1/2 x 19 1/2 in., second framed 18 x 19 1/2 in.
Provenance
Masterpiece Gallery, Carmel, California, Pinnacle Rock Fire Station.
Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA, Pinnacle Rock Fire Station.
John Moran Auctioneers, Inc., Monrovia, California, April 17, 2012, lot 1055, Pinnacle Rock Fire Station.
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California, January 13, 2013, lot 7046, Bear Buttes.
Private collection, Thousand Oaks, California, from the above.

Exhibited
Pacific Grove, Museum of Natural History, Albert Thomas De Rome, 1885-1959: A Pacific Grove Artist Remembered, July 1 - 31, 1988, Pinnacle Rock Fire Station.

Literature
Walter A. Nelson-Rees, Albert Thomas DeRome 1885-1959, Being a Story of his Life and a Picture Diary of his Oils and Watercolors, Oakland, 1988, nos. 95 and 166, pp. 51 and 70, illustrated.

The first inscribed: Bear Buttes, Eel River / Garberville. On point, looking north, 1920. The second inscribed: Pinnacle Rock Fire Station / Old Baldy Mountain / from Bartlett Springs Hill / 1927. Looking northeast. Red bud. Red tree grows only in Lake Country, wild.