This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Buffalo, NY on Aug. 2, 1864, DeWitt Parshall, during his college years, had a marked talent for caricature, much to the dismay of the faculty members. After graduating from Hobart College in 1885, he sailed for Dresden where he entered the Royal Academy. He had further study in Paris with Alexander Harrison and at Académies Cormon and Julian.
After moving from New York City to California in 1917, he settled in Santa Barbara where he remained until his death on July 7, 1956. Parshall is best known for his paintings of the Grand Canyon, most of which were done during the years 1910-17; whereas, in California he specialized in landscapes and florals.
Member:
ANA (1910); NA (1917); Allied AA; Int'l Society Art League; Lotus Club; Century Ass'n; NAC; Calif. Art Club; AFA. Exh: World's Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; PPIE, 1915; LACMA, 1921; Santa Barbara AA, 1924; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1925; Painters of the West (LA), 1925; GGIE, 1939; Santa Barbara Art League, 1939; Montecito Country Club, 1940.
Collections:
Toledo (OH) Museum; Syracuse (NY) Museum; Detroit Inst. of Arts; San Diego Museum; LACMA; Seattle Museum; Santa Barbara Museum; MM. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); History & Ideals of American Art (Neuhaus); American Art Annual 1919-33; Who's Who in California 1928; Who's Who in American Art 1936-56; Who's Who on the Pacific Coast 1949; Artists of the American West (Samuels); Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Who's Who in America; Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); NY Times, 7-8-1956 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  An expressive painter of coastal and landscape views, DeWitt Parshall was born in Buffalo, New York, and graduated in 1885 from Hobart College where he irritated faculty members because of his ability to do caricatures. He also studied at DeVeaux school in Niagara Falls, the Royal Academy at Dresden, and from 1886-1882, had further study at the Julian and Cormon academies in Paris.
He set up a studio in New York City, but his interest was western landscape, and he became a member of the Society of Painters of the West. From 1910 to 1917, he did a series of paintings of the Grand Canyon for which he remains best known. Full of emotion and color, they have been labeled "expressive". In 1917, he moved for the remainder of his life to Santa Barbara, California, where he specialized in coastals and landscapes.
Source:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
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DeWitt Parshall is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
Painters of Grand Canyon
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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