Yelland, William Raymond - Mount Shasta

Yelland, William Raymond (1889-1966). Painter, architect. Born in Los Gatos, CA on Sept 22, 1889. William was the nephew of artist Raymond Dabb Yelland. The younger Yelland studied architecture at UC Berkeley under John Galen Howard and at the University of Pennysylvania. By the early 1930s he had an office in Oakland in the Financial Center Bldg and a home in nearby Kensington. His architecture was inspired by the quaint villages of France. The many "Mother Goose" or "Hansel and Gretal" homes near UC Berkeley are of his design as of the Normandy Village and Tupper & Reed Music store. His architechture earned him an honor award from the A.I.A. in 1927. In his leisure Yelland painted landscapes which he exhibited in the SF Bay Area. His address was Kensington, CA at the time of his death in Milan Italy on Sept 27 1966,

Member: Athenian-Nile Club (Oakland) Exh: Oakland Art Gallery, 1929-34; EastWest Gallery (SF), 1930: Santa Cruz Art League, 1934

DIM: 19 x 24