William Keith ART FOR SALE

1838 Aberdeenshire, Scotland - 1911 Berkeley, California. Known for: Plein-aire landscape painting, history, genre, portrait.

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A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters." His romanticized views of nature found much favor among the culturally aspiring citizens of San Francisco and hung in many foyers and dining rooms in their elegant homes. He completed thousands of paintings and drawings, and many of them were lost in his studio in the fire of 1906. His early works are dramatic mountainscapes in a realistic style adopted from the Dusseldorf School of Germany. The paintings of the last two decades of his life are looser and obviously influenced by his exposure in France to the Barbizon... Read full biography

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Headwaters of the Merced

Type:Painting

Year:1901

Size:36.00" x 60.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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SOLD FOR $121,000 AT THE COEUR D' ALENE ART AUCTION-RENO. Now taking consignments. For more information, please call 208.772.9009 or www.cdaartauction.com

Price: SOLD

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Landscape

Type:Painting

Size:16.50" x 22.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unsigned

Price: Please contact Gallery 44 LLC