Truckee, California Winter Street Scene (1986) | Limited Edition Print by Audrey Dygert | Framed Mountain Town Art
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The Artwork
A winter street scene of downtown Truckee, California, dated January 1986. The composition looks along Commercial Row under deep snow, with brick and painted storefronts in rose, red and teal, the tall sign of the Hotel Rex, parked cars buried to the hubcaps, and dark pines on the ridge behind. The buildings are drawn with care, while the snow and sky are left soft and open in the manner of the California watercolour school.
It is a limited edition colour print after an original painting by Audrey Dygert, signed in the image A. DYGERT with her small vermilion seal, and lettered Truckee, Calif. Jan. 1986. The sheet is matted wide and framed in solid wood with a warm finish, and the hanging hardware is intact.
History & Provenance
Audrey Dygert (1922 to 2010) was a California watercolourist who studied for four years with Jade Fon, attended his workshops at Asilomar, and learned from many of the leading California watercolour painters of the 1960s; the red seal beside her signature comes from that Chinese brush tradition. She exhibited widely in the East Bay and later in Houston and on the Texas Gulf Coast, where a 1975 show in Baytown included more than eighty of her watercolours.
She and her husband then ran ArtTruckee, a gallery at 10054 Commercial Row in Truckee, on the very street in this picture. The original ArtTruckee label on the back, Limited Editions by A. Dygert, confirms that this print was sold there. Her full story, with every newspaper source, is on the Audrey Dygert artist page.
Product Details
| Artist | Audrey Dygert (1922 to 2010), Truckee, California |
| Subject | Commercial Row and the Hotel Rex, downtown Truckee, in winter |
| Era | 1986, as lettered in the image |
| Medium | Limited edition colour print on paper, after her original painting |
| Marks | Signed A. DYGERT with artist seal, and lettered Truckee, Calif. Jan. 1986, in the image; original ArtTruckee label to the reverse |
| Publisher | ArtTruckee, 10054 Commercial Row, Truckee, California |
| Frame | Solid wood frame with warm finish, wide neutral mat, hanging hardware intact |
| Condition | Very good vintage condition. Print clean with balanced colour and no visible fading. Light expected wear to the mat; minor surface marks to the frame. No tears, water damage or repairs observed |
| Dimensions | Available on request |
Why It Belongs in Your Home
This is place based art, and the place is identifiable. For anyone with a connection to Truckee, Tahoe or the mountain towns of the Sierra it carries immediate weight, and for everyone else it offers warmth and architectural charm without tipping into the touristic. It suits cabins and mountain homes, ski houses, studies and hallways, and it comes with a real story: painted by a trained watercolourist and sold from her own gallery a few doors down the street it shows.
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