Gorgeous painting of the cypress tress along the untamed Carmel coast by artist Bertha Stringer Lee. Art measures 8" x 12", with frame 9.75" x 13.75". Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869-1937) was an American painter, known for her California landscapes painted within the California Impressionist style. Bertha Elizabeth Lee (née Stringer) was born on December 6, 1869, in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and went on to study painting with Amédée Joullin, William Keith, Arthur Frank Mathews, and Raymond Yelland.