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 (showing 500 of 8580 characters). |
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Elmer Wachtel is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Painters of Grand Canyon
The California Art Club
California Painters
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