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From Arthur Dominique Rozaire: Poet With a Brush, George Stern Fine Arts:

Rozaire and his family arrived in Los Angeles late in 1917. His impact during his brief stay of less than five years, is impressive. Within eighteen months, in June 1919, an exhibition of his work was held at the new Ransom Gallery in Los Angeles. Antony Anderson was enthusiastic, referring to him as “a colorist of exquisite feeling and sensibility.“ In July two of his paintings from the Ransom Gallery-The Sun Dancers (Plate 234) and The Brook, Arroyo Seco- were shown at the Summer Exhibition of Paintings at the Museum of History, Science and Art in Los Angeles. There is no record of reference to Rozaire again until the spring of 1921 when he showed two paintings at the Second Annual Exhibition of the Painters and Sculptors Club. Reviewing the exhibition In the Times, Antony Anderson remarked on the public’s demands for better landscapes, looking for “more subtle and more synthetic interpretations.”!” Of Rozaire he said:“Here is an artist who always interprets poetically, in harmonies of color that sing like a lyric. His ‘Coal Barges in Winter’ is a truly fine thing, as free and sweeping in its brushwork as it is subtle and lovely in feeling” !°