MARION K. WACHTEL (1876-1954)
26. Sierra
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
18 x 22 inches
24 x 28 framed
Provenance:
Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
When Elmer Wachtel passed away in 1929, Marion stopped exhibiting for several years. When she began to show her work again, it had changed dramatically. While her early watercolor paintings tended to be soft and atmospheric, her later oils were rich and bold in feeling. The wide range in her palette is daring and refreshing. The glorious colors of the California landscape were an inspiration to Marion Wachtel. She produced some of her finest works during this colorful period of her career.
Sierra was painted in 1948, on one of her many trips to the High Sierra Mountains. The majestic snow laden peaks in the distant, to the refreshing turquoise stream meandering through the valley floor capture a true sense of a perfect idyllic day in the Sierra Mountains.
Marion Wachtel continued to paint and teach into the early 1950’s. She was a member of the California Watercolor Society, the Academy of Western Painters, and the Pasadena Society of Painters. She passed away in Pasadena in 1954.
Works held:
Laguna Art Museum, The Irvine Museum, Fleischer Collection, Arizona, California
State Building, Los Angeles, Women’s Club, Hollywood, Cedar Rapids Museum,
Fremont High School, Los Angeles, Gardena California High School, Friday Morning
Club, Los Angeles.
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