Pine Tree in a Sierra Landscape
ClassificationsPaintings-oils
Artist
Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
(American, 1875-1954)
Date20th Century
Made AtCalifornia, United States
MediumOil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (44.5 × 34.3 cm)
Framed: 21 × 17 × 7/8 in. (53.3 × 43.2 × 2.2 cm)
Framed: 21 × 17 × 7/8 in. (53.3 × 43.2 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Darlene and Steve Coogler
Object number2013.29.1
DescriptionLandscape painting became the ideal vehicle for expressing national spirit, as it created a metaphor of the bounty and opportunity in rustic America. Landscape painting afforded an avenue to express God and Nature as one, an understanding of spirituality that disavowed official religious patronage. This was a paramount sign to the rest of the world when America entered the world stage in the 19th century, and that emphasis was its people and its land. The focus on natural light and loose, choppy brushstroke in a broad perspective were adopted by painters like Wachtel, whose main source of inspiration took place in the Arroyo Seco region near Pasadena, California in the late 19th century.On View
Not on viewCollections
late 19th Century
19th Century
19th Century
19th Century
c. 1953
