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Artist or Maker: William Wendt 1865-1946

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Medium: Oil on canvas

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Provenance: Private Collection, Seattle, Washington. By descent from the original owner. Exhibition: {William Wendt and his Work}, Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California, 1926, No. 34. Literature: John Alan Walker, {Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt (1865-1946): California's "Painter Laureate" of the "Paysage moralise"},John Alan Walker, Bookseller, Big Pine, California, 1992, No. 612, pp. 98, 184. ?{William Wendt and his Work}, Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California, 1926, No. 34, p. 55.

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Notes: . The Stendahl Gallery Catalogue caption for this work reads: {The ranchos of California are in themselves as pictorial as the hills that surround them. Over the home on this particular rancho the towering sycamores spread protecting arms and shower their gold. They draw delicate patterns of shade on the white ranch house. They twinkle against the pale blue of the sky and the elusive lavender of the hills. The composition has parallel lines placed with successfull daring.}