Mural Study for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation by Emil Kosa Jr.

Gouache on paper, 21 x 23 inches

This mural study by California Style watercolorist Emil Kosa (1903-1968) emphasizes the geometric beauty and ritualism of mechanized forms. It is part of the Labor Arts exhibit Scenes of American Labor with thirty nine paintings that evoke the individual and physical experience of work. The entire series is housed at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.  

See also Boiler Room and Refinery Worker, watercolor paintings by Wayne LaCom.