Orrin Augustine White
Spectacular Baja, Californiaafter 1923

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Orrin Augustine White
Title: Spectacular Baja, California
Place Made: United States
Date Made: after 1923
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/16 x 30 1/16 in. (63.66 x 76.36 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William W. Weeks
Accession Number: M.82.168.3
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: White’s studio in Pasadena was near that of artists Elmer Wachtel (1864-1929) and Marion Wachtel (1876-1954), and his broadly brushed decorative landscape style is related to the work of these and other traditional Southern California artists in the 1920s. He painted in Mexico with Alson Clark (1876-1949) in the summer of 1923 and was among the first North American artists to appreciate the pictorial potential of that country, which he continued to paint for most of his career.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Orrin Augustine White
Title: Spectacular Baja, California
Place Made: United States
Date Made: after 1923
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/16 x 30 1/16 in. (63.66 x 76.36 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William W. Weeks
Accession Number: M.82.168.3
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: White’s studio in Pasadena was near that of artists Elmer Wachtel (1864-1929) and Marion Wachtel (1876-1954), and his broadly brushed decorative landscape style is related to the work of these and other traditional Southern California artists in the 1920s. He painted in Mexico with Alson Clark (1876-1949) in the summer of 1923 and was among the first North American artists to appreciate the pictorial potential of that country, which he continued to paint for most of his career.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.