Charles Wysocki (artist)

Wysocki released his paintings in popular art prints and merchandised with calendars, collector plates, tins, greeting cards, wallpaper and jigsaw puzzles.

In 1950 while working in local art studios, he was drafted into the Army and spent his two-year hitch in West Germany.

After working in that field in Detroit for four years, he returned to Los Angeles where he helped to form a freelance advertising agency.

[5] Through his wife, whose family were early settlers in the San Fernando Valley, Wysocki came to appreciate a simpler, more rural life than that of the big city.

His focus was on Americana landscapes of old New England, with antiques, fall colors, snow scenes and picturesque barns.

At that time, his painting The White House Fourth of July Picnic, became part of the presidential art collection.

[11][6] Wysocki made his home in Joshua Tree, California, painting up until his death in 2002 at the age of 73, following abdominal surgery complications.