Desert Ranch
Type:Painting
Year:1939
Size:15.50" x 19.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Featured in "Golden Dreams" Exhibition, March 18-September 23, 2017 at The Hilbert Museum of California Art
William Sandorhaji Darling ART FOR SALE
1882 Sandorhaji, Hungary - 1963 Laguna Beach, California. Known for: Plein aire western, coastal and desert view paintings, movie art director.
Born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji at his family estate in Sandorhaji, Hungary on Sept. 14, 1882. He studied art for eight years at the Royal Academy of Budapest followed by further study in Paris at Ecole... Read full biography
Born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji at his family estate in Sandorhaji, Hungary on Sept. 14, 1882. He studied art for eight years at the Royal Academy of Budapest followed by further study in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1910, he established a reputation as a portrait... Read full biography
Born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji at his family estate in Sandorhaji, Hungary on Sept. 14, 1882. He studied art for eight years at the Royal Academy of Budapest followed by further study in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1910, he established a reputation as a portrait painter in NYC with such sitters as the evangelist Billy Sunday and the Woolworth family. At the beginning of WWI he settled in Los Angeles and, due to anti-German sentiment, changed his name to William... Read full biography
Born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji at his family estate in Sandorhaji, Hungary on Sept. 14, 1882. He studied art for eight years at the Royal Academy of Budapest followed by further study in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1910, he established a reputation as a portrait painter in NYC with such sitters as the evangelist Billy Sunday and the Woolworth family. At the beginning of WWI he settled in Los Angeles and, due to anti-German sentiment, changed his name to William S. Darling. He then began a 30-year career as supervising art director for 20th Century Fox Studios, winning three Oscars and several nominations for his settings. During his leisure he began painting landscapes en plein air as well as nocturnal... Read full biography
Born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji at his family estate in Sandorhaji, Hungary on Sept. 14, 1882. He studied art for eight years at the Royal Academy of Budapest followed by further study in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1910, he established a reputation as a portrait painter in NYC with such sitters as the evangelist Billy Sunday and the Woolworth family. At the beginning of WWI he settled in Los Angeles and, due to anti-German sentiment, changed his name to William S. Darling. He then began a 30-year career as supervising art director for 20th Century Fox Studios, winning three Oscars and several nominations for his settings. During his leisure he began painting landscapes en plein air as well as nocturnal cowboy and Indian scenes à la Frank Tenney Johnson. Darling maintained homes in Palm Springs and Laguna Beach where he derived. Source: Edan Hughes,... Read full biography
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