The Orange County Register | Penny E Schwartz

Museum in Orange looks back on Golden State in the 20th century

“She appeared to be a docent, standing in front of a colorful oil painting and chatting with museumgoers at the Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange on a recent Saturday afternoon.

But the woman turned out to be the artist, pointing out the painting she had finished for her father, artist Emigdio Vasquez, who died in 2014.

Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill completed her father’s oil on canvas rendition of an orange packing house back in the heyday of the local citrus industry. The workers depicted in detail in the painting were her aunts.”

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