1926 L/E Monograph CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONIST EDGAR PAYNE Start Price USD 4,500.00 Current Price USD 4,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 29, 2008 End Time Friday, November 28, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about '1926 L/E Monograph CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONIST EDGAR PAYNE' Description E N T H U S I A S T We purchase American Artist Estates as well as American art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books and catalogs for the lover of American prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: EDGAR ALWIN PAYNE AND HIS WORK, by Antony E. Anderson and Fred S. Hogue, Photographs by GEORGE E. HURRELL and Claude S. Turner, printed by Phillips Printing Company for STEDAHL ART GALLERIES, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, 1926. Gilt embossed signature on green cloth covered boards. Very Good condition 8vo size hard cover. No markings--very clean copy. Very rare in ANY condition, much less as nice as this, as many copies found their way into public libraries and/or were tossed during the years of the artist's oblivion, and as this was a limited edition --this copy is numbered "55", the total edition size is unstated, but had to be small [100?]. First and only Edition. 8vo size. 68 pages, a photo of the artist working on the canvas that won him honorable mention at the 1923 Paris Salon, plus 50 illustrations of his oil paintings, each painting with interesting commentary by the authors, also a photograph of the artist's tuna boat model. A photograph of the artist is also present as the frontispiece. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item that is the major and seminal reference on Payne. This is also a VERY RARE early HURRELL item, the 22 year old Hurrell having come to Laguna Beach the previous year to photograph the plein air paintings of the Laguna Beach school of painting. 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It is possible that in some cases a similar courtesy can be extended for international shipments, but, because of the Post Office limitations on package size, weight, content etc., an international buyer must contact us in ADVANCE to confirm whether any such courtesy may be extended for the particular items desired. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS! About this well listed artist : From AskArt.com - Born in Washburn, Missouri, Edgar Payne became one of the foremost plein-air landscape painters of California in the early 20th century. He is best known for his majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain scenes, and depicted so many Indians on horseback riding through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that a mountain lake, Lake Payne, was named for him. He painted many works "en plein air" and also did numerous sketches from which he later did studio paintings. He worked quickly and completed about one painting per day. He depicted many other locations as well including the coast of Laguna Beach, the Canadian Rockies, the French and Swiss Alps, the Italian and French Riviera, fishing scenes of Italy and France, and landscapes in the Southwest including the Grand Canyon and Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. Payne was active in Chicago early in his career and there had a distinguished reputation for painting stage scenery for famous actresses and for mural painting. He left home at age 14 because his father objected so strongly to his son's dedication to an art career. He earned money painting houses, stage sets and murals, and traveled through the Ozarks, Texas, Mexico and Chicago where he received a major commission from the Congress Hotel for an 11,000 foot mural of Italian gardens. (Since destroyed). In Chicago, he was active with the Chicago Society of Artists and the Alumni Association of the Art Institute. He was self-taught except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. Of his art education, his daughter said: "My father never studied with anyone. He tried the Chicago Art Institute for a little while, but he didn't like it. He considered himself to be completely self-taught." ("Plein Air" 26) In 1909, he first visited California and painted scenes of Laguna Beach and San Francisco. During this time he discovered the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he returned continually throughout his career for the inspiration that led to his signature paintings and a turning from murals and stage sets to landscape painting. He married artist Elsie Palmer in 1912, and the couple with their daughter, Evelyn, born in 1914, moved to Laguna Beach. They rented a beach-side cottage while Edgar built a home, which was the only one the family ever owned. They lived in it for three years, and it was a uniquely stable time for the family that traveled frequently in search of painting subjects. Payne decided he wanted to have an art gallery for exhibiting artists, and in 1920 he became the founder and first president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Gallery of Laguna Beach. The first meeting was held in his studio. The Paynes later moved to Los Angeles so they could be closer to the Stendahl Galleries, which was in the Ambassador Hotel and represented his work. In 1917, the Santa Fe Railroad commissioned him to paint the Southwest, and the couple spent four months in Canyon de Chelly. They also traveled and sketched the Grand Canyon and scenes of New Mexico and spent several years, 1922 to 1924, in Europe. Payne had a commercial artist friend, George Evans, who visited them in Europe, and according to Payne's daughter, Evans and the Paynes spent much time looking at artwork in museum. In the 1923 Paris Salon, Payne won an Honorable Mention, which was significant recognition because more than 7000 paintings were exhibited. During the Depression, Payne took teaching jobs to earn money for him and his family, and he also wrote his book, "Composition of Outdoor Painting", which, with many printings, has been a popular guide to landscape painting. He and his wife continued to spend much time in New York City and had planned to build a house there, but did not start the project because of the economy. The couple separated in 1932, but Elsie, who subsequently had a very successful career, returned to live with him towards the end of his life when he was ill. A major problem between them was his dominant personality and her resentment that her own considerable talents were submerged by his demands. Apparently he felt remorse. Their daughter wrote that "the last words her father spoke to her on his last day of life in 1947 were that 'he was sorry he had been so selfish and that everything had been for his art.' " ("Plein Air" 26) ASSOCIATIONS: Salmagundi Club Allied Art Association International Society Art League California Art Club (President 1926) Laguna Beach Art Association Ten Painters of Los Angeles Palette & Chisel Club, 1913 Chicago Society of Artists American Artists Professional League Carmel Art Association EXHIBITIONS: California State Fairs, 1917 (prize),1918 (prize) Sacramento State Fair, 1918 (gold) Sacramento, 1919 (medal) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1919 (solo), 1926 (gold medal) Art Institute of Chicago, 1920 (prize) Southwest Museum, 1921 (prize) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual,1921,22,25 Paris Salon, 1923 National Academy of Design, 1929 (prize) Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 California Art Club, 1947 (prize). 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