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Elmer Wachtel

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Elmer Wachtel (1864 - 1929) was active/lived in California, New York.  Elmer Wachtel is known for Landscape and figure painting, illustration.

A prominent landscape painter of late 19th and early 20th-century California, Elmer Wachtel specialized in panoramic desert and mountain landscapes using impressionist brushstrokes.  His early works were tonalist in mood, and his later paintings were more decorative and light hearted.

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Lanark, Illinois where he worked on a farm.  In 1882, he moved to San Gabriel, California to join his rancher-brother who, married to the sister of artist Guy Rose, managed the extensive Rose ranch.  Wachtel taught himself to play the violin, and then, while working as a furniture store clerk, became first violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

He began sketching still lifes and saved enough money to study briefly at the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase.  However, he did not like the teaching methods, so he showed his work, much of it city street scenes, privately to Chase.  He   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12383 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Elmer Wachtel available:    Marion Ida Kavanagh Wachtel,  Hanson Puthuff,  William Wendt,  Alfred Richard Mitchell,  John Marshall Gamble,  Benjamin Chambers Brown,  Jack Wilkinson Smith,  Franz Arthur Bischoff,  Alson Skinner Clark,  Anna Althea Hills,  Samuel Hyde Harris,  Orrin Augustine White,  Jean Mannheim,  Granville Redmond,  Arthur Grover Rider,  Maurice Braun,  Arthur Hill Gilbert,  Joseph Kleitsch,  Percy (Henry Percy) Gray,  Dana Bartlett,  William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel,  Guy Rose,  Frank William Cuprien,  Jules Eugene Pages



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Elmer Wachtel


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Adobe Structures, Pueblos
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • San Juan Capistrano Mission
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
  • Spanish Missions, California
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • California Before 1940
  • Catalina Island
  • Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona
  • Lake George, New York
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
  • California Art Club-
Art Teacher
  • William Keith
  • William Merritt Chase
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Lambeth School of Art, London, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • J.L Hubbell Collection, Arizona
  • Morton H. Fleischer Collection
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • California Art Club
Exhibition of Museum
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC

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