Edgar Alwin Payne

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Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947)

Rider on horseback with pack mules in a mountainous landscape Oil on canvas laid to canvas

Signed lower left: Edgar Payne

20” H x 24” W

$40,000-60,000

Provenance: Private Collection, Fox Island, WA.

Notes: Recognized as one of California’s leading landscape artists, Edgar Payne earned the respect of his peers and art critics for his Impressionistic landscapes painted in the plein-air style. Possessing a reverence for nature, he especially loved the mountains. Frequently he took pack horses in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range to the upper lakes to paint, where he glorified the areas majestic peaks and cobalt blue lakes. He would spend several weeks in remote locations, living with his family in large, elaborate campsites in order to create his remarkable compositions. This work, having been in private hands for decades in Washington State, is a perfect example of Payne’s ability to capture the magnificent beauty of the great Sierra Mountain range. Edgar Payne’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,; Indianapolis Museum, Indiana; Irvine Museum, California, National Academy of Design, New York, Oakland Museum of California; Orange County Museum of Art, the Laguna Art Museum, and the Pasadena Art Institute, amongst others.