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Hanson PuthuffNear La Cañada, c. 1930c. 1930
c. 1930
About the Item
Provenance
Consigned to the gallery by private collectors
Description
The lower third of this landscape painting by Hanson Puthuff, created circa 1930, depicts the dry wash of the Arroyo Seco and the gently rolling green Verdugo foothills. In the middle ground are two Mediterranean-style homes barely visible as they are nestled among a grouping of trees. The buildings indicate the scale of the massive purple San Gabriel mountains in the distance. Many of Puthuff’s paintings depict the environs near his home in La Crescenta, west of La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known simply as La Cañada. The location is in the Verdugos region of Los Angeles County in the Crescenta Valley on the western edge of Southern California's San Gabriel Valley. Hanson Puthuff was a true plein air painter who completed his work outdoors rather than in the studio. La Cañada is the home of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Many of Puthuff’s paintings portray neighboring vistas prior to urban development.
Frame
Wood with gold gilt, made by Mayen & Olsen, dated "2004".
On Verso
Remnant of a typewritten inventory tag reads: “560”, title, size, and a price of $250.00”
“Katherine Norris Fine Art” label
“American Legacy Fine Arts” label
“Near La Canada” in pencil on verso stretcher bar
Exhibited
Early California Masters: Paintings from the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection, American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California, November 12 - December 19, 2021
FRAMED: 25" x 30.5" UNFRAMED: 18" x 24"
- Creator:Hanson Puthuff (1875 - 1972, American)
- Creation Year:c. 1930
- Dimensions:Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Pasadena, CA
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Hanson Puthuff
Hanson Puthuff was born in 1875 in Waverly, Missouri. He is primarily remembered for his California landscapes and desert paintings, and his involvement in the Southern California art world in the early 20th century. His paintings of rolling hills, canyons, and atmospheric effects of Southern California, the Sierras, and desert scenes are widely admired. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1903, as an established pictorial artist. He worked for the next 23 years as a commercial artist, primarily painting billboards as well as a theater scene painter. His great love, however, was "plein aire" landscape painting, which he took up full time in 1926. Easel painting grew quite naturally out of his professional commercial work. When painting billboards, Puthuff would be transported by horse-drawn wagon out to a billboard and deposited for the day. When he and his helpers finished sign painting, they would often set up easels and sketch and paint while they waited for the return of the wagon. When Puthuff first came to California he had been mainly interested in figural painting, but he found this new land so paintable that he concentrated almost exclusively on landscapes from that time on. Shortly after leaving commercial art, the Santa Fe Railroad offered Puthuff one of his first commissions. He was asked to paint a series of different views of the Grand Canyon, which the railroad would use for advertising and promotional purposes. These works, Grand Canyon, were shown to the public in a 1927 exhibition in the offices of the railroad. Puthuff also painted backgrounds for the Santa Fe Railroad model train exhibits in various cities. Living in La Canada and Corona del Mar, Puthuff painted desert scenes throughout California and frequently accompanied Edgar Payne on painting trips to Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. He loved the bright colors and open space of Navajo country. The most common landscapes were those of the coast south of Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, and among the desert buttes of the Southwest. His work is often considered to be stylistically akin to that of William Wendt, although with a wider chromatic spectrum. Puthuff is also particularly identified with the depiction of eucalyptus trees, as are Jean Mannheim, Dana Bartlett, Edgar Payne, and Anna Althea Hills, and Paul Lauritz. In addition to his own artistic achievements, Puthuff was an activist in the art community. He was partly responsible for the formation of the two most important artists' organizations of the period, the California Art Club and the Art Students League of Los Angeles, which he helped found with Norwegian- born art writer and close friend Antony Anderson, art critic for the Los Angeles Times. He became associated with a group called the Garvanza Circle, named for the Garvanza district of eastern Los Angeles, which included such artists as Fernand Lungren, Carl Oscar Borg, Maynard Dixon, Granville Redmond, Elmer Wachtel, and others who were inspired by southwestern cultural heritage.
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