Take a trip to the Santa Barbara wine country with this impressionist original painting of historic Mattei's Tavern.  Noted artist, Ellie Freudenstein captures the sense of place  in this 11" x 14" oil on mounted canvas with a 18" x 21.5" distressed gilded wood frame.

• • Original Oil on Mounted Canvas 11" x 14"
  • Signed "Ellie Freudenstein", lower left
  • Artist signature and professional signature designations, "Oil Painters of America. California Art Club" on verso
  • 18" x 21.5" dark gilded wood frame with distressing

A lifelong artist, Ellie Freudenstein earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors at UCLA. There she continued with graduate work under William Brice, Jan Stussey, and Rico Lebrun. After multi-careers in art education, advertising, and motherhood, she returned to plein air painting, based in her "Sea Pines Studio" on the Santa Barbara, California coast. Ellie Fruedenstein is an Artist Member of the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America. She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, Women Artists of the West and the Gold Coast Watercolor Society. Museum exhibitions include: the Springville Museum of Art (Springville, Utah), Tucson Desert Art Museum (Arizona) and in California at the Autry National Center, Carnegie Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art and the Pasadena Museum of History.