Original DeWitt Parshall Vintage California Plein Air Impressionist Landscape Santa Ynez Mountains Palms Eucalyptus Tonalism Oil Painting
DeWitt Parshall,(1864 - 1956); has been called “one of the foremost American landscape painters of the early 20th century.” He was born in Buffalo, New York, on August. 2, 1864. DeWitt Parshall took his first formal art training at Hobart College where he graduated, in 1885. During his college years, DeWitt Parshall had a marked talent for caricature; (much to the dismay of the faculty members). After graduating from Hobart College in 1885, he sailed for Dresden where he entered the Royal Academy.
Parshall continued his studies in Paris with Alexander Harrison; at Academies Cormon, and Julian. It was while in France, that Parshall garnered his first honors; including inclusion into the prestigious exhibition of the Paris Salon in 1890. He also made the acquaintance of a number of other American artists studying in Paris.
One of these such artists, San Franciscan Charles Rollo Peters, whom became celebrated for his nighttime landscapes or nocturnes, extolled the beauties of California to Parshall, which encouraged the latter to eventually visit the Golden State.
Acceptance of one of his canvases at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892 hastened his return to the U.S. Parshall was known as a tonalist, one who visited the sites he painted, but would execute the paintings from memory, which added a romantic, moody feel to his works. Perhaps the watershed event in his artistic career came in 1910, when the Southern Pacific Railroad sponsored the first in a series of trips to paint the Grand Canyon. These landscapes came to be held in such high regard that Parshall became known in some circles as the outstanding artist of this natural wonder.
In 1913, while on one of these trips out west, he visited his friend, artist Thomas Moran, in Santa Barbara. Four years later, Parshall relocated permanently here and became an active member of the local artists’ colony. Here he developed an international renown for his California landscapes and seascapes until his death in 1956.
After moving to California from NYC in 1917, he settled in Santa Barbara where he remained until his passing, in July of 1956.
DeWitt Parshall is best known for his paintings of the Grand Canyon, most of which were done during the years 1910-17; whereas, in California he specialized in coastal scenes and landscapes.
Member: ANA, 1910; NA, 1917; Allied AA; Int’l Society Art League; Lotus Club; Century Association; NAC; California Art Club; Society of Independent Artists; AFA; Painters of the West.
Exhibited: World’s Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; PPIE, 1915; LACMA, 1921; GGIE, 1939.
Works held: MM; Toledo (OH) Museum; Syracuse (NY) Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; San Diego Museum; LACMA; Seattle Museum.
DeWitt Parshall
(1864 - 1956)
Santa Ynez Mountains in Distance, Eucalyptus, Path through Palm Trees
Oil on Canvas
Approximately 1945
Painting alone measures approximately 18"X24"
Larger, in Original Vintage Frame
No overpaints. No missing paint.
Some dirt as expected from age. Overall very good condition. No cracks or damage. Tiny flaw in mountain, with varnish. Email for full condition report.
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