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Catalina Island Sunrise 
Original oil painting of Avalon Bay, featuring the Santa Catalina Island Casino. The artwork is also available as archival quality canvas giclée prints in a variety of sizes listed below.
| Description & Size | | Price | | Purchase | | | 196G1020 Limited Edition Giclée Print on Canvas, 10 x 20 inches, Total Edition: 95 Prints 10.00" x 20.00" Id: 872 | | $120.00 | | 
| | | | 196G1530 Limited Edition Giclée Print on Canvas, 15 x 30 inches, Total Edition: 95 Prints 15.00" x 30.00" Id: 873 | | $275.00 | |
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The Grand Opening of Santa Catalina Island's Casino was on Memorial Day weekend in 1929. This art deco masterpiece became a world-famous landmark, thanks to nationwide nightly big band broadcasts. Performers such as Glen Miller, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, and Woody Herman, to name a few, performed to enthusiastic crowds. For 28 seasons the Casino Ballroom averaged 4,000 guests every night. The maple, white oak and rosewood dance floor in the circular ballroom on the top floor can accommodate up to 1000 people. William Wrigley, Jr., who purchased Santa Catalina Island in 1919, built the Casino because his wife, Ada, and her sisters loved to dance. In the 1920s, the word "casino" carried the connotation of a place of gathering or entertainment, or a grand dance pavilion—nothing at all to do with gambling.
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