Watercolor was Sam Colburn’s (1909-1993) preferred medium. A prolific painter, he worked quickly outdoors on location, developing a style that was elegant, luminous, spontaneous, and fluid, though requiring tremendous control of the medium. Sam was one of the most colorful characters to walk the Monterey coast. His paintings are as much an evocation of the region as the writings of John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers, or the photography of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.