Biography of philip paradise phillip island

Painter, printmaker, and illustrator Philip Herschel Paradise was born in Ontario, Oregon in 1905, and relocated with his family to Bakersfield, Calif., as a child.

Considered one of the California Regionalist painters, Paradise studied under F. Tolles Chamberlain, Rico Lebrun, and Leon Kroll, and also took courses at the former Chouinard Art Institute. He would later teach at Chouinard as well as Scripps College.

Biography of philip paradise phillip island

Paradise helped found the California Scene group in the 1930s and 1940s, and was a contemporary of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper. In the 1940s he set up his own printshop in Cambria, where he had relocated following his studies. 

Paradise, who served as president of the California Watercolor Society, painted watercolors of regional California citylife and working class scene, depicted in a Modernist style that he became known for.

In later years his subjects reflected his travels in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, often creating book