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We have several batik silks signed by the artist and would like to know what they are worth, they range from 1930′ to 1940′s ...

Ivan Morley describes his paintings as poetic myth objects. Drawing from the Wild West ancestry of his hometown in California, Morleys works which range from folk-style illustration to full-fledged abstraction combine fact and more than a little historical embellishment in their narrative motifs. Using such unorthodox materials as thread, glass, fabric, batik, soap, and KY ...

Ivan Morley’s paintings are inspired by the frontiersman’s lore of scrappy, dried-out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi. Such locales and their all-but-forgotten (and possibly artist-fabricated) histories–if you can call tales of memorable cockfights and observations on the behavior of squirrels histories-seem unlikely sources of inspiration. Yet, from a mass ...