Henry Gremke ART FOR SALE

1860 San Francisco, California - 1939 Oakland, California. Known for: Landscape, floral, genre and mural painting.

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Painter, muralist, photographer. Born in San Francisco, CA on April 10, 1860. Dick Gremke was the son of German immigrants who had sailed to California in the early 1850s. His father was a gold miner and later a chandler for the clipper ships. The younger Gremke grew up in San Francisco and began art studies locally at the School of Design under Raymond Yelland. As well as being a fine painter, he was also an able photographer. After the earthquake in 1906, he did a series of paintings of the destruction. He specialized in watercolors and oils of the Sierra Nevada and highly detailed floral still lifes. He also painted murals for the stations of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads. Gremke remained a bachelor and lived at the family... Read full biography

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The Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach, California - Image 1 of 3

The Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach, California

Type:Painting

Year:c.1900

Size:10.50" x 14.50"

Medium:Gouache

Signed:Lower Left

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A very early image of the Lone Cypress by a California artist. In excellent original condition. Could have been done as early as 1900, or after the 1906 San Fracisco Earthquake and Fire, which Gremke recorded in important historic paintings.

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