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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Second Street Cut (Rincon Hill, San Francisco)
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| Born in San Francisco, California on June 1, 1879, Wilke was raised in the Mission District and studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews.
Accompanied by Joseph Raphael, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship for further study under Laurens. Prior to his departure he took French lessons from Nettie McConnell for whom he sent and married in Paris in 1903.
After returning to San Francisco in 1905, he worked at Shreve's as a gold and silver designer for 33 years and, during the 1930s, worked with famed printer John Henry Nash. Wilke died in Palo Alto, California on June 18, 1958.
Member: Calif. Society of Min. Painters; San Francisco Art Association; Calif. Society of Etchers (first sec.); Calif. PM.
Exh: Mark Hopkins Inst., April 1906; PPIE, 1915 (gold medal); Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1928; Oakland Art Gallery, 1932; GGIE, 1940.
In: CHS; Mills College (Oakland); Society of Calif. Pioneers; De Young Museum. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Interview with the artist or his/her family; American Art Annual 1915-31; Art in California (R. L. Bernier, 1916); Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 cat.; Who's Who in American Art 1936-53; Oakland Tribune, 6-19-1958 (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. |
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William Wilke is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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