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I picked this print up at a thrift store for three dollars. In the lower left corner it's signed by Britt Lomond which happens to be the actor that played Capitán Monastario on Zoro. This was all I could find online, "Active in Los Angeles, California in the 1960s and early 1970s. Painted scenes of Spanish ships, modernist still life, boat scenes and colorful abstractions. The Brittini studio was owned by Britt Lomond, his father in law and also Loraine Miller. Worked in a semi abstract style and could be described as influenced by Bernard Buffett's line and geometric style. Many works were sold to the decorative market. Additional listing in: Davenports Art Reference and Price Guide. Signed works, "Brittini"." Does anyone have anymore information about his artwork? Thanks!
Hello! My best friend from Studio City, Calif., is Evan Grey Lomond. Brit is her father! She can tell you everything about him and his art.. Find her on FaceBook as Evan Grey. She is a producer and still lives in Southern Calif. You should look her her up?!
Tinydancer, I'm not on Facebook so I can't contact your friend, but when next you see her please beg her, implore her to reissue her father's memoirs, Chasing After Zorro. I so want to read them but copies cost hundreds of dollars!
I worked as an amateur painter for Britt and John and with Lorraine at Brittini Studios in the early-mid 1960s. I have always remembered Britt fondly for his generosity as a teacher (for me as a young artist) and his sense of humor. I had the privilege to work with him and others, including Lorraine, on the murals at the Hollywood Egyptian Theater in preparation for the opening of "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. After discovering I'd not survive as an artist professionally, I entered into the electronics business and finished my career in aerospace and defense electronics project and sales management. Now, retired, I've taken up painting again and lessons taught to me by ALL those artists at the studio 50 years ago show in my work today. I hope it's apropos to Britt's family for me to thank him and the old Brittini staff artists for their generosity back then so I could do what I do with any semblance of artistic success today.
Paintings signed "Brittini," are probably not of any great value as they were likely copies painted by any number of artists, including me, employed by Brittini Studios. We all were trained to sign that name. Brittini Studios was a 'production art' studio whose paintings were produced in multiple hand-painted copies from originals selected by interior decorators, for example, to use in chain furniture stores and in sizable volumes of copies for hotel chains or office buildings. It's possible but I do not know, that some of Britt Lomond's personally hand-painted artwork may exist and be quite valuable. I have no knowledge of that part of his career or life. I do recall that Lorraine Miller and a young lady named "Karen" did a lot of beautiful work that was commissioned privately and was not not sold as 'production art.'
Hello, I was able to pick up 2 paintings signed Brittini recently. Along with them I bought a painting signed Roma. It is on the same wood paneling and of a similar style. Do you know if this was also from the same studio?
(I made a photo of one of the Brittinis and the Roma my profile image as I couldn’t add a photo to the post)