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Elmer Wachtel
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Elmer Wachtel (1864 - 1929) was active/lived in California, New York. Elmer Wachtel is known for Landscape and figure painting, illustration.
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 artist Guy Rose, managed the extensive Rose ranch. Wachtel taught himself to play the violin, and then, while working as a furniture store clerk, became first violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
He began sketching still lifes and saved enough money to study briefly at the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase. However, he did not like the teaching methods, so he showed his work, much of it city street scenes, privately to Chase. He ...
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Marion Ida Kavanagh Wachtel
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Hanson Puthuff
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William Wendt
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Alfred Richard Mitchell
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John Marshall Gamble
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Benjamin Chambers Brown
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Jack Wilkinson Smith
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Franz Arthur Bischoff
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Alson Skinner Clark
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Anna Althea Hills
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Samuel Hyde Harris
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Orrin Augustine White
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Jean Mannheim
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Granville Redmond
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Arthur Grover Rider
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Maurice Braun
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Arthur Hill Gilbert
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Joseph Kleitsch
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Percy (Henry Percy) Gray
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Dana Bartlett
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William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel
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Guy Rose
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Frank William Cuprien
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Jules Eugene Pages
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