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Although born in Hawaii, Mabel Alvarez is best known as a Californian painter where she moved in 1909. She originally studied under James Edwin McBurney and assisted him in painting a series of murals for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. Alvarez was a member of the Modern Art Society, an innovative group of artists who painted primarily figurative and still-life subject matter, rather than landscapes, the predominant trend of most Los Angeles artists of her time. After studying Chinese, Persian, East Indian and Tibetan art, she was inspired to create decorative pieces, including interior wall decoration and glazed tiles. |
