Autumn Design #2

"Perhaps the most original of the early San Diego artists was the self-taught Charles Reiffel, a critically acclaimed landscape painter before his 1926 arrival on the West Coast. His work is vibrant with its blue-green-gold palette and undulating line that fill the canvases with movement and light, endowing them with a sense of the constant change of the mountainous Southern California landscape. Reiffel was in sympathy with the modern tendency toward pure color and bright light." (M. Petersen, "Art in San Diego before 1930," Impressions of California: Early Currents in Art 1850-1930, Irvine, California, 1996, p. 157)