Big Corona

Artist Joan Irving (1916 - 1995)

Date1950

MediumGouache

Dimensions9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineThe Hilbert Collection

Object numberIrv-1

DescriptionA jaunty jalopy on the sand – back in an era when you could drive your car right onto the beach at Big Corona. Joan Irving was a painter, sculptor and muralist, born in Riverside, Calif. She studied at the Los Angeles Art Center School under Edward Kaminski and Barse Miller. The wife of artist Rex Brandt, she began teaching at the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Art in 1948, and in 1973 became co-director. Her teaching experience also included Orange Coast College, Coronado School of Fine Arts and Chouinard Institute. Joan served as chairman of the Newport Beach Arts Commission and Newport Harbor Art Museum in 1960. Much of her subject matter was drawn from the area around her home in Corona del Mar where she lived from 1946 until her death in 1995.

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