Framed w/ Glass 24 x 37 inches Original WaterColor, Signed Gideon D. Arul Raj was born 2 August 1925 in Kodiakanal, India. He studied art at the Government School of Arts and Crafts in India. He later attended art school in Madras, South India, where he studied the art of watercolor painting. After the end of WWII he moved to Laguna Beach, CA. In California he painted and exhibited his watercolors of India and California. The Walter Foster Company published a book that described his painting techniques in the 1960s. I have a copy of this book. It is a paperback, 31 pages, 11" x 17", with dozens of images of Raj's watercolors at various stages of completeness. It is really a "How to paint like Raj" book. The book also contains samples of the color palette that Raj used. I think his work is interesting, but he is not well listed, appearing only in California Watercolors by McClelland and Last. I have a few other paintings by him, but the composition and colors are pretty similar. I think that more biographical information is now available for him since I published my brief biography over ten years ago. I has been a while since I did any new research on this artist. Raj died in June of 1975. Serious Inquiries Only !