Edwin Deakin
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Image of artist from "Sunset", published by the Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1899–1900 | |
| Born |
May 21, 1838 Sheffield, England |
| Died |
May 11, 1923 Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | British-American |
| Known for | Fine arts painter - landscape, still life and architectural portraiture, oils on canvas |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel Fox |
Edwin Deakin (May 21, 1838 – May 11, 1923) was a British-American artist best known for his romantic landscapes which included Spanish missions and wild areas of the state of California. His still life works are also notable. Deakin is considered one of the more obscure artists of a small group that best represent the issues of representing China Town in art.[1] He is considered to have had an immediate impact on preservation efforts for California missions with a series of paintings of all of the structures.[2]
Life
Deakin was born in Sheffield, England, on May 21, 1838. He was apprenticed at the age of 12 to a japanning business, painting landscapes and floral designs on furniture pieces, but received no formal training. By 18, he was a notable architectural landscape artist. He emigrated to the US in 1856 with his family to the city of Chicago, where his father opened a hardware store.[3]
He first traveled to San Francisco in 1870, at the age of 32, and moved there the following year after losing nearly all his works and the family business in the Great Chicago fire in 1871. In California, he became a member of the Bohemian Club and died at the age of 84 in 1923 in Berkeley ten days before turning 85.[3][4][5] His daughter Edna became an architect.
Selected works
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Notre Dame, Paris, 1893
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She Will Come Tomorrow, 1888
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Christmas Morning, Hôtel de Cluny, nd
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Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon, 1915
References
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- ↑ Lee, Anthony W. (October 1, 2001). Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco. University of California Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0520225923.
- ↑ Kimbro, Edna; Costello, Julia G.; Ball, Tevvy (October 20, 2009). The California Missions: History, Art and Preservation (Conservation & Cultural Heritage). Getty Conservation Institute. p. 48. ISBN 978-0892369836.
- 1 2 "California Painter of the Picturesque". Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Monthly. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ↑ "Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque". Crocker Art Music. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ↑ "Edwin Deakin". AskART.com. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
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