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Early 20th Century Will Sparks - Adobe - Oil on Canvas
Oxnard, CA
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Measures 13 3/4" x 17 5/8", frame is 19 3/4" x 24".
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one …
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Measures 13 3/4" x 17 5/8", frame is 19 3/4" x 24".
Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand oil paintings.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed art talent as a youngster, selling his first painting when he was age twelve. He became a doctor, but his love of art prevailed. He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then went to New York and then Paris to the Academies Julian and Colarossi where he studied with Gerome, Harpignies, and Bouguereau. In Paris he earned money as an assistant to biologist Louis Pasteur for whom he made anatomical drawings. He was also much influenced by the Barbizon painters and Cezanne.
He returned to St. Louis and in 1886 exhibited in the St. Louis Expo where he met Mark Twain whose stories of California inspired him to head West. He stayed briefly in Cincinnati and Denver and then California, where he did newspaper illustrations in Stockton and Fresno.
In 1891, he settled in San Francisco, establishing a studio at 163 Sutter Street. He combined illustration work and writing for the San Francisco Evening Call with easel painting including all of the California missions. He was a member of the Bohemian Club, a free-spirited, fun loving group that lived "hand-to-mouth" for their art.
He also painted in Arizona, and a painting "Tucson" was done in 1894.
In 1904, he joined the faculty of the University of California, doing anatomy drawings for medical classes, and in 1907, he was a founder of the Del Monte Art Gallery. He died in San Francisco on March 30, 1937.
His paintings are in the collections of the Huntington Library in San Marino and the Crocker Museum in Sacramento.
Source:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
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- Dimensions
- 24ʺW × 3ʺD × 19.75ʺH
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Architecture
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Some age to the frame. Colors vibrant. Some age to the frame. Colors vibrant. less
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Oxnard, CA
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