Significant mid century landscape oil painting of Paraiso Hot Springs in the Santa Lucia foothills near Soledad, California by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed lower left corner "EM Heath" and "Paraiso Hot Springs near picnic grounds at turn in the road looking north, painted by Mrs. Heath of Carmel 1953". Edda Heath studied privately with William Merritt Chase, Arthur Dove and Robert Henri. Image, 16"H x 20"L. Presented in a rustic period wood frame size: 19.50"H x 23.50"W. Edda Heath studied at the New York School of Art, Pratt Institute, Adelphi College, and privately with William M. Chase, Arthur Dove, Robert Henri, and Frank DuMond. While in New York she painted political portraits of Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1928 she moved to Carmel, California where she became active in the local art scene. Her married name was Pappel at the time of her death in Salinas, California on Nov. 6, 1972. Her oils and watercolors include seascapes, still lifes of fruit and flowers, and landscapes of the redwoods and the Monterey Peninsula.