Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006) was a notable California landscape artist with ties to West Marin, and to Inverness in particular. His 1934 oil painting, “Golden Gate Bridge,” created under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project and depicting the bridge under construction, was chosen by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to adorn the White House. Now it hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where several of Strong’s Depression-era paintings are…