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Bubar's love for the California landscape is unmistakeable. Having
come from the horrendous Maine winters of his childhood into the
relatively warm Mediterranean Climate of California, he never ceased
to appreciate the natural beauty around him.
He owned a large Graflex camera that he would carry on weekend
auto excursions to Eden Township in Southern Alameda County. There
he would find scenes or specific shots that he would then bring
back to his studio, and begin a new painting when the mood hit him.
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Oak on Hill
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Many of the bare, rolling hills populated by coastal oaks were
painted from subjects in Southern Alameda County, in what are now
the heavily-populated areas Hayward, Union City, Newark, or Fremont.
One such painting is of the eucalyptus grove just east of Ardenwood
Farm, now an historic site for the county. Bubar painted the trees
in the 1920's.
The Monterey Penninsula was another favorite location that Bubar
would seek our for collecting landscape images. He was intimately
familiar with this area, where he had spent his teenage and early
adult years. One oak tree in particular caught Jewett's eye - located
just to the left off Munras Avenue, as he climbed the grade from
Monterey to Carmel, he appears to have used it as inspiration for
two separate paintings: Oak on a Hill, and Leaning Oak
(right).
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Leaning Oak
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