Souvenir met stadsgezichten uit San Diego, Californië before 1935

This is a souvenir from San Diego, California, by Walter Elton Averrett, but I'm not sure exactly when it was made. It's like a landscape painting chopped up into little tiles, like a puzzle. Each of these little scenes have been created in a way that feels both descriptive and, at the same time, totally fake. I can see the water and boats of San Diego Bay. The colors are really saturated, almost like they're glowing. The artist probably used some kind of printing process. Look how the artist painted the vegetation and the buildings. It's all just kind of slapped on, but somehow it works! All of these marks create a surface that's really alive and jumping. It reminds me of some of those early 20th century artists who were trying to capture the energy of modern life, like maybe the German Expressionists. Anyway, it's a great little piece that reminds us that art is always in conversation with itself.