Stuart, James Everett -Mexican Adobe

Stuart, James Everett. (1852-1941) Landscape painter. Born near Bangor ME on March 24, 1852. Stuart came to California with his parents in 1860 via the Isthmus of Panama. The family settled on a 200-acre ranch on the Sacramento River near Rio Vista where he attended public school. He began to paint in 1860 and had a few lessons in Sacramento from local artist David H Woods. In the 1870s he began a five year study course at the SF School of Design under Virgil Williams and Raymond Yelland while studying privately with portrait painter Benoni Irwin. He then had studios in Porland, OR 1881, NYC 1886 Tacoma WA 1890 and in 1891 established a studio in Chicago where he based for 20 years A bachelor, he traveled thought the Northwest, Mexico and made three trips to Alaska. By the turn of the century, he was a nationally famous painter and was highly successful in merchandising his own work. He had the unique habit of listing on the back of his canvasses the date, price, number, geographical local of the scenes depicted He painted over 5000 paintings, mostly landscapes, however he was an excellent portraitist and also did a series of mission paintings. He also invented a process of painting on aluminum which he considred indestructible. Returning to SF in 1912, Stuart established a studio in Union Square and remained in SF until his death on Jan 2 1941. Member: SFAA, NAC, Society of Independent Artists. Bohemian Club. AAPL, Portland Art Club. Exh: SFAA 1878-1918, American Art Society, Philadelphia, 1902(bronze medal) In; Oakland Museum, White House (Wash DC) CHS; De Young Museum; Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, Southwest Museum, LA LACMA Crocker Museum Sacramento,: Omaha Public Library

Dim: 10" x 15"