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William Keith

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William Keith (1838 - 1911) was active/lived in California / Scotland.  William Keith is known for Plein-aire landscape painting, history, genre, portrait.

A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist.  In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters."  His romanticized views of nature found much favor among the culturally aspiring citizens of San Francisco and hung in many foyers and dining rooms in their elegant homes.  He completed thousands of paintings and drawings, and many of them were lost in his studio in the fire of 1906.

His early works are dramatic mountainscapes in a realistic style adopted from the Dusseldorf School of Germany.  The paintings of the last two decades of his life are looser and obviously influenced by his exposure in France to the Barbizon School of landscape painters, who were the first colony of painters to complete paintings "en plein air," or directly from nature rather than in studios.  A forerunner of Impressionism, this style also i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17814 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about William Keith

   Publications  Book References:  115
Magazine References:  12

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12 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Keith
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review California Landscapes from the Willrich Collection December 2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Yes
American Art Review The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony February 2006 Shields, Scott A Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West-California August 2004 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Southwest Art Arizona-Best of the West August 2004 Osterman, Julie Yes
Art-Talk Museums April 2004 Editor, Art-Talk Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Grandeur in Nature: Landscape Paint June 2003 Stern, Jean Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Museum/Gallery Exhibitions and Lect February 2003 Dempwolf, Teddi Yes
The Magazine Antiques A Vision for the West November 2000 Driesbach, Janice Yes
The Magazine Antiques George Inness and San Francisco Art November 2000 Harrison, Alfred C Yes
Art-Talk Art Show October 1998 Editor, Art Talk No
American Art Review Twilight & Reverie April 1995 Jones, Harvey Yes
American Art Review William Keith December 1994 Harlow, Ann Yes
115 Book References for William Keith
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2010 Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Jeffery Morseburg, Tressa Miller, Nat Read, Richard Reitzell Art at the Jonathan Club 184 Yes
2009 Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts 304 Yes
2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
2006 Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
2006 Shields, Scott A. Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 346 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Editor, St. Mary's College Water, Land and Sky: Rediscovering Albert Thomas DeRome
(Exhibition catalog)		 15 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2003 Stern, Jean; Roy C. Rose and Molly Siple Enchanted Isle: A History of Plein-Air Painting in Santa Catalina Island 256 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2002 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary 231 Yes
2000 Fine Art Dealers Association Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959 251 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Hjalmarson, Birgitta Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco 255 Yes
1998 Gerdts, William; Will South California Impressionism 284 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Pennington, Estill Curtis Frontier Sublime Alaskan Art from the Juneau
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Stragnell, Robert Landscapes of the West
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Editor, Sonoma County Museum Along the Russian River: An Artistic Interpretation
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Vincent, Stephen et al O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes 272 Yes
1989 Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings 382 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Harrison, Alfred C Jr William Keith Saint Mary's College Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 115 Yes
1987 Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Westphal, Ruth Lilly Plein Air Painters of California: The North 220 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1985 Turner, Frederick John Muir: Rediscovering America 417 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Kopitske, Christine (Editor) American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1983 Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen 418 Yes
1982 Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr Views of Yosemite The Last Stance of the Romantic Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 43 Yes
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 197 Yes
1982 Westphal, Ruth Lilly Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland 220 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Van Nostrand, Jeanne The First Hundred Years of Painting in California 1775-1875 135 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Editor, Laguna Beach Museum Southern California Artists 1890-1940 216 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Spangenberg, Helen Yesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula 88 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Arkelian, Marjorie The Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia 64 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Baird, Joseph Armstrong The West Remembered
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Corn, Wanda M The Color of Mood American Tonalism 1880-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1972 Curry, Larry The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1972 Taylor, Joshua National Parks and the American Landscape 141 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1969 Chapellier Galleries American Art Selections Turn of the Century 95 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1938 Neuhaus, Eugen William Keith The Man & the Artist 95 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
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