Charles Theller Wilson Paintings

Charles Theller Wilson was born in San Francisco, California, on October 10, 1855. He first studied painting with his mother, Agnes, who was California's earliest known woman artist and later with Jules Tavernier. Wilson lived in his native city until 1900 when he moved north to Eureka. Sketching trips were made to Mexico, Central America and the west coast of South America, however, it is his paintings of the California redwoods which made him renown. He had a ready market in the East, where his works were reproduced by calendar makers with thousands being sold all over the U.S. Many of Wilson’s paintings were lost in the 1906 earthquake. He produced a set of large paintings for Humboldt County's exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The year before he died, Wilson went to New York City to visit relatives.