James Everett Stuart Bucolic Oil Landscape Painting of Sacramento Valley, 1921

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James Everett Stuart Bucolic Oil Landscape Painting of Sacramento Valley, 1921

About the Item

Bucolic farm scene, near Galt California (Sacramento Valley) oil on artist's board, of the period Plein Air, Measure: 2" x 18" without the frame, 16 ¾" x 22 ¾" in a period frame. Signed lower left and reverse as shown. No. 2822 Near Galt California Painted September 30, 1921 J E Stewart Biography from the Archives of askART Born in Bangor, Maine, James Everett Stuart became known for his panoramic landscapes from Maine to California to Alaska to the Panama Canal, but especially of the American West with focus on Northern California and Oregon. Reportedly he painted more than 5000 paintings during his lifetime and originated a method of painting on aluminium and wood with a special adhering process that he thought made his work quite durable but proved not to be so. He also wrote on the back of most of his paintings. His parents took him to California at the age of eight, and the family settled in San Francisco where he attended the public schools and studied art with Virgil Williams, Raymond Yelland, Thomas Hill, and William Keith at the San Francisco School of Design. His early work was dramatic California landscape including the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and in style the works were moody and mysterious and suggestive of the French Barbizon School. He first travelled to the Northwest in 1876, and in 1881, he opened his studio in Portland, Oregon and from there travelled throughout the West and East Coast and into Mexico. Subjects included Yosemite as well as California missions and adobes. He painted landscapes whose sales ultimately were financially remunerative and which established his reputation. in 1885, he first went to Yellowstone where he camped for several weeks, supplied himself with fish for food, climbed steep cliffs including Electric Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio paintings. The following summer, Stuart returned, having negotiated a free pass from the Northern Pacific Railroad in exchange for paintings. At the end of the summer, he went East to New York City on the return part of his train pass. Settling a studio in New York for four years, he continued to arrange several more summer railroad passes to Yellowstone. He was unable to arrange a formal arrangement for painting sales from the Park's gift shop, so he sold paintings from his tent. Of those years, he expressed that he much preferred being in the park to studio painting, but he stopped visiting in 1889 and instead traveled to Alaska and the Coastal Range. During much of the 1890s, he lived in Chicago, but in 1912 returned to San Francisco until his death in 1941. There, from his studio near Union Square, he was highly successful and popular among his peers, underscored by his membership in the Bohemian Club. Many of the owners of old homes in California have his paintings on the wall, suggestive of a time of grandeur. One of his paintings is in the White House, and his work is in the historical societies of Oregon, Washington, and Montana. Source: Edan Hughes, artists in California Peter Hassrick, drawn to Yellowstone Peggy and Harold Samuels, encyclopedia of artists of the American west.

Creator:
James Everett Stuart (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 16.75 in (42.55 cm)Width: 22.75 in (57.79 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Style:
Other (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Composition,Paint,Oiled,Painted
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture:
1921
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Portland, OR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3684111940443