William Frederic Ritschel Antique Salmagundi Club Thumb Box Exhibition Original American Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Original antique Salmagundi Club Thumb Box Exhibition oil painting, by William Frederic Ritschel, (1864-1949). Painting is a landscape of a small dwelling/shack in between trees, and has the extraordinary palette also associated with select members of the Salmagundi Club at this time, including John Follinsbee, and Robert Frederick Blum. The painting is hand signed by the artist in red, lower left, and dated Sept 1915. Ritschel joined The Salmagundi Club in 1901, and won the Isador Prize in 1923.
William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949) was a California impressionist painter who was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in1864. As a youth, Ritschel worked as a sailor and began sketching seascapes. He studied art under Karl Raupp (1837–1918) and Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874) at the Royal Academy of Munich before immigrating to New York City in 1895. In 1911, he settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California and began painting the Monterey Peninsula, as well as exhibiting on the east coast, and in Europe.
William Ritschel was a member of:
Member: San Francisco Art Ass'n; New York Watercolor Club; American Watercolor Society; Carmel Art Ass'n; Bohemian Club; Salmagundi Club; Société Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres (Paris); Academy of Western Painters (Los Angeles); Allied Art Ass'n; California Watercolor Society; National Arts Club.
Ritschel was exhibited:
Exhibited: San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1911; National Academy of Design, 1913 (Carnegie prize), 1921 (Ranger prize), 1926; National Arts Club, 1914 (gold medal); Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915 (gold medal); California State Fair, 1916 (gold medal); Philadelphia Arts Club, 1918 (gold medal); Salmagundi Club, 1923 (Isador prize), 1930; Art Institute of Chicago, 1923 (Harris prize); Royal Academy, 1924; Paris Salon, 1926 (honorable mention); Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Works held: National Arts Club; National Museum of American Art (Washington, DC); Monterey Peninsula Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; Oakland Museum; Fort Worth Museum; St Louis Museum; Bowers Museum (Santa Ana); Detroit Art Club; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Museum; Crocker Museum (Sacramento); Irvine (CA) Museum; Orange County (CA) Museum.
- Edan Hughes
Public Collections Include:
The Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Crocker Art Museum(Sacramento, California), the Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iawa), Fisher Gallery (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Irvine Museum (Irvine, California), the Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, California), the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), the Newark Museum(Newark, New Jersey), the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D. C.), Springville Museum of Art(Springville, Utah), and the University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, Arizona) are among the public collections holding works by William Frederic Ritschel.
William Ritschel
(1864-1949)
Oil on Board
Impressionist landscape of wooded area, with small dwelling
Signature is almost illegible. "W and R are the most legible letters of the signature. Due to lack of complete signature, painting is listed in the manner of William Rischel.
Painting measures approximately 12" X 16", plus frame
Painting measures approximately 15.5" X 19.5", in frame
Original antique gold gild wood and original leaded glass frame is in excellent condition.
Verso retains label from Salmagundi Club's Thumb Box Exhibition
Lower portion of the painting, from left corner in red, retains writing. Dated September 1915.
Painting is in very good to excellent original condition, with no restorations or cleanings. Very minimal wearing of painting to be expected, due to age.
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