Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of... Read full biography
Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of picturesque views of northern California including giant redwoods, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada... Read full biography
Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of picturesque views of northern California including giant redwoods, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was the son of California pioneers, and his father, Lorenzo Dow Latimer, was a lawyer in Chicago and then moved his family to California where he tried gold mining. Failing to have success, he... Read full biography
Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of picturesque views of northern California including giant redwoods, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was the son of California pioneers, and his father, Lorenzo Dow Latimer, was a lawyer in Chicago and then moved his family to California where he tried gold mining. Failing to have success, he practiced law in that state, first in Gold Hill in Placer County and then in Santa Rosa of Sonoma County. Lorenzo Latimer's mother died when he was six years old, and the father married Sarah Rich from a local ranching family. The Latimers moved to a... Read full biography
Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of picturesque views of northern California including giant redwoods, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was the son of California pioneers, and his father, Lorenzo Dow Latimer, was a lawyer in Chicago and then moved his family to California where he tried gold mining. Failing to have success, he practiced law in that state, first in Gold Hill in Placer County and then in Santa Rosa of Sonoma County. Lorenzo Latimer's mother died when he was six years old, and the father married Sarah Rich from a local ranching family. The Latimers moved to a ranch near Windsor, California and the young Latimer grew up among rolling hills that later became prosperous vineyards. In 1869, when Lorenzo L... Read full biography
Lorenzo Palmer Latimer - Artist Info
About Lorenzo Palmer Latimer: Books
Books & Publications (20)
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
L.P. Latimer: California Watercolor Painter (Published by North Point Gallery-San Francisco)