Elmer Wachtel

Landscape, 1922
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches

Artist Quotes:

A favorite motif for the artist, “the foreground of this composition in deep shadow, in contrast to the glow of the distant valley illuminated by either a rising or setting sun.”- Janet Blake Dominik, article in OCMA’s artist research files

Additional Links:

Excerpt from The International Studio Volume 36, (Wachtel’s work discussed pg xcvii-xcviii

•  http://books.google.com/books?id=bhznAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR97&dq=elmer+wachtel+artist&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hhmNUvmpM8mzigKOn4HwDQ&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=elmer%20wachtel%20artist&f=false

Excerpt from A History of Plein Air Art: Impressionism in California, Jean Stern, The Irvine Museum, explaining artist’s style

 “Elmer Wachtel was at first very much a Tonalist, showing moody and poetic landscapes in dark tones. As he progressed he accepted much of the Impressionist esthetic and significantly brightened his palette. Many of his mature works show a more decorative and lyrical style, very reminiscent of Arthur Mathews (1860-1945), the San Francisco landscape and figure painter who influenced a generation of northern California painters, although Wachtel did not include figures in his compositions”