Wild Buckwheat, Crescenta Foothills
ClassificationsPaintings-oils
Artist
Elmer Wachtel
(American, 1864 - 1929)
Date1919
Made AtUnited States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
Framed: 27 × 33 × 2 1/4 in. (68.6 × 83.8 × 5.7 cm)
Framed: 27 × 33 × 2 1/4 in. (68.6 × 83.8 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineMartha C. Stevens Memorial Art Collection
Object numberF7669
DescriptionThis oil painting titled “Wild Buckwheat, Crescenta Foothills” from 1919 was painted by an early art critic for the Los Angeles Times called Elmer Wachtel, referred to as "the father of the local landscape school". Wachtel spent the first 30 years of the twentieth century capturing Southern California on canvas. But most importantly for the "plein air" artists of the 1920s, he was a member of the first group of landscapists of the 1890s who, working without precedent, developed the compositions that became popular with later artists. This painting, one of his finest, uses a favorite composition: a darkened foreground beyond which one views a sunlit valley and distant hills.On View
On viewCollections
2000-2011
