One of California's best-known landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Wendt was called the "Dean of Southern California" artists. His landscapes were especially known... Read full biography
One of California's best-known landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Wendt was called the "Dean of Southern California" artists. His landscapes were especially known for rich greens and browns. In 1911, he became co- founder of the California Art Club, which he... Read full biography
One of California's best-known landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Wendt was called the "Dean of Southern California" artists. His landscapes were especially known for rich greens and browns. In 1911, he became co- founder of the California Art Club, which he served as the second and fourth President from 1911 to 1919 and 1917 to 1918 respectively. This organization reflected his commitment to plein-air painting of the California landscape. His style was... Read full biography
One of California's best-known landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Wendt was called the "Dean of Southern California" artists. His landscapes were especially known for rich greens and browns. In 1911, he became co- founder of the California Art Club, which he served as the second and fourth President from 1911 to 1919 and 1917 to 1918 respectively. This organization reflected his commitment to plein-air painting of the California landscape. His style was impressionism, obviously influenced by the Decorative Style of Arthur Mathews, and his landscapes seldom had figures in them. Indicative of the breadth of his reputation was his election in 1912 as an Associate of the National Academy of Design in New... Read full biography
One of California's best-known landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William Wendt was called the "Dean of Southern California" artists. His landscapes were especially known for rich greens and browns. In 1911, he became co- founder of the California Art Club, which he served as the second and fourth President from 1911 to 1919 and 1917 to 1918 respectively. This organization reflected his commitment to plein-air painting of the California landscape. His style was impressionism, obviously influenced by the Decorative Style of Arthur Mathews, and his landscapes seldom had figures in them. Indicative of the breadth of his reputation was his election in 1912 as an Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York. He was born in Bentzen, Germany, and in 1880, immigrated to Chicago where, largely self taught, he studied br... Read full biography
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The Art of Oregon: Influence of Eagle's Nest Art Colony and Rediscovered Collection They Left Behind
2016
Simeone, Beth Baker (Author); Bob Logsdon, (Photography; Coleen Logsdon, (Design)
180 pages (color)
Legacy of the Land Exhibition Catalog (Exhibition catalog)
2015
Colestock, Keith
103 pages (color)
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
From a Versatile Brush: The Life and Art of Jean Mannheim
2011
Reitzell, Richard W. (Introduction by Jean Stern of the Irvine Museum)