American Elmer Wachtel ( 1864-1929) Watercolor Painting

American Elmer Wachtel ( 1864-1929) Watercolor Painting
Very fine vintage watercolor painting by well listed American artist Elmer Wachtel (1864-1929). Framed. Signed lower left.

Size: Framed: 15" x 26 1/2"; Unframed: 8 1/4" x 19 5/8".

Elmer Wachtel was active/lived in California, New York. Elmer Wachtel is known for landscape and figure painting, illustration.Elmer Wachtel was one of California's most important impressionist painters from the early twentieth century. Born in Maryland in 1864, he showed an early interest in music, learning to play the violin. When the family moved from Illinois to Southern California in 1882, he continued with his musical pursuits and became the first violinist of the newly formed Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.Eventually looking more and more to a career in art, he went to New York to study for one year at the Art Student's League under William Merritt Chase. Upon his return to California he continued both his music and artistic endeavors, beginning to teach art around 1903.In 1904 he married Marion Kavanaugh and the two built studios in Los Angeles before settling permanently in Pasadena in their home in the Arroyo Seco. The Wachtels became a very important influence in the art scene of Southern California and exhibited widely throughout the state. Elmer painted primarily in oils, though in his earlier career he found more favor with watercolors. Ever deferring to one another, Marion turned to watercolors in an effort not to compete with her husband.After his sudden death in Mexico in 1929, she eventually turned to painting exclusively in oils. Both artist palettes brightened over the years, keeping up with the impressionist trend towards an ever more colorful approach to landscape painting, although Elmer's interest in tonalist devices remained with him throughout his career.

Provenance: private art collector estate Denver, Colorado.Detailed condition reports are not included in this catalog. For additional information, including condition reports, please contact us at info@sofedesignauctions.com.


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