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1862 St. Louis, Missouri - 1937 San Fransisco, California. Known for: Mission scenes and tonalist landscape painting.
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil paintings. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed art talent as a youngster, selling his first... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil paintings. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed art talent as a youngster, selling his first painting when he was age twelve. He became a doctor, but his love of art prevailed. He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then went to New York and then Paris to the Academies Julian and... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil paintings. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed art talent as a youngster, selling his first painting when he was age twelve. He became a doctor, but his love of art prevailed. He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then went to New York and then Paris to the Academies Julian and Colarossi where he studied with Gerome, Harpignies, and Bouguereau. In Paris he earned money as an assistant to biologist Louis Pasteur for whom he made anatomical drawings. He was also much influenced by the Barbizon painters and Cezanne. He... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil paintings. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed art talent as a youngster, selling his first painting when he was age twelve. He became a doctor, but his love of art prevailed. He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then went to New York and then Paris to the Academies Julian and Colarossi where he studied with Gerome, Harpignies, and Bouguereau. In Paris he earned money as an assistant to biologist Louis Pasteur for whom he made anatomical drawings. He was also much influenced by the Barbizon painters and Cezanne. He returned to St. Louis and in 1886 exhibited in the St. Louis Expo where he met Mark Twain whose storie... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWater, Land and Sky: Rediscovering Albert Thomas DeRome
2004
(Exhibition catalog)Editor, St. Mary's College15 pages (color)Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesArt Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes
1990Vincent, Stephen et al272 pages (color)If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings
1989Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees382 pages (color)Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesPlein Air Paintings: Landscapes and Seascapes/Santa Cruz to Carmel 1898-1940
1985
(Exhibition catalog)St John, Terry18 pages (color)The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 pages (color)Dictionary of American Artists
1982Opitz, Glenn372 pagesSouthern California Artists 1890-1940
1979Editor, Laguna Beach Museum216 pages (color)Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.202 pages (color)American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)256 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesYesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula
1976Spangenberg, Helen88 pages (color)The Cowboy in American Prints
1972Meigs, John (intro)184 pagesCatalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
1940
(Exhibition catalog)Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)64 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages