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Lot 47

William Wendt
(1865-1946)
The Mansion 30 x 25 1/4in overall: 36 1/2 x 31 1/2in

7 August 2018, 18:00 PDT
Los Angeles and San Francisco

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William Wendt (1865-1946)

The Mansion
signed and dated '-WILLIAM WENDT- 1928-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 1/4in
overall: 36 1/2 x 31 1/2in
Painted in 1928

Footnotes

Provenance
with Laguna Beach Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.
with Stendahl Art Galleries, 1929, Los Angeles, California, no. 9.
Private collection, California.

Exhibited
Irvine, In Nature's Temple, The Life and Art of William Wendt, November 9 - February 8, 2009.

Literature
California Pictorial, August 3, 1929, cover illustration.
South Coast News (Stendahl Art Galleries advertisement), Laguna Beach, February 14, 1930.
South Coast News, Laguna Beach, March 18, 1932.
John Alan Walker, Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage moralise, Big Pine, 1992, p. 164, no. 396.
Will South, Jean Stern, Janet Blake, In Nature's Temple, The Life and Art of William Wendt, Irvine, 2008, p. 60, full page color illustration.

The work depicts the Susanna Bixby Bryant Ranch House in Santa Ana, California, designed by architect Wallace Neff. Neff is credited with pioneering a uniquely California style of architecture, drawn from Tuscan, Spanish and Mediterranean Revival influences. Bixby Bryant was an avid horsewoman and horticulturalist who founded the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in 1927 to showcase California's native plants. The locale shown here was the site of the original garden. While the ranch house no longer exists, the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden was relocated in 1951 to Claremont, California, and thrives to this day.

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