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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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Adobe Structures, Pueblos
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Spanish Missions, California
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Barbizon, France
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Cincinnati Before 1900
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •Bohemian Club
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Jean Leon Gerome
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •William Bouguereau
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
- •St. Louis School of Fine Art, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Newspaper Staff, Events, Artist, Cartoon, Illustration, Photography, Graphics
- •Nocturne Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Del Monte Art Gallery, Monterey
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association