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Ernest Etienne Narjot

Ernest Etienne Narjot (1826 - 1898) was active/lived in California / France.  Ernest Narjot is known for Frontier genre, mural, portrait paintings.

A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings.  By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life.

He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents.  He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest in gold mining, which lured him to America.

He was part of the California Gold Rush of 1849 but was unsuccessful.  For thirteen years, he was with a mining expedition to Mexico and painted mining and landscapes along the Arizona border.  He also married a Mexican woman, Santos Ortiz.

By 1865, he settled in San Francisco where he had a studio on Clay Street and painted landscapes, portraits, and sketches of gold miners and Indians and did murals and fresco   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1854 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  38
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ernest Etienne Narjot
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Art of the Gold Rush February 1998 Driesbach, Janice T Yes
38 Book References for Ernest Etienne Narjot
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Middleton, Kathy L W. Otto Emerson: Hayward's Artist and Naturlist 100 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2001 Chalmers, Claudine Splendide Californie!: Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists 1786 to 1900 144 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Hjalmarson, Birgitta Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco 255 Yes
1998 Gerdts, William; Will South California Impressionism 284 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1998 Redfern, Ray Redfern Gallery: 1998
(Exhibition catalog)
73 Yes
1991 Chelette, Iona and Katherine Hough California Grandeur and Genre (Collections of James Coran and Walter Nelson-Rees) 107 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)
386 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Vincent, Stephen et al O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes 272 Yes
1989 Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings 382 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1988 Saunders, Richard H Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
211 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
197 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
192 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1961 Ainsworth, Ed Painters of the Desert 111 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)
270 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
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