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Title |
Along the Arroyo Seco |
Date |
1924 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
The painting depicts a tree-dotted, green grass carpeted valley with a mountain rising in the background. The Arroyo Seco (Spanish for "dry stream") is a normally dry riverbed that runs between Pasadena and Los Angeles. A good part of the Pasadena freeway now covers the Arroyo Seco. The painting is framed in a carved and gilded frame measuring 62 x 52 inches. Description Modified: 10/17/2019 |
Catalog Number |
PA383 |
School Site # |
8664 |
School Name |
Gardena Senior High |
Dimension Details |
40"h x 50"w |
Material |
Oil on canvas |
Artist |
Wendt, William |
Credit line |
Presented to Gardena High School from the Class of Summer 1924. |
Collection |
California Impressionist/ California School |
Art School |
Plein Air |
Related Publications |
"Painted Light: California Impressionist Paintings from Gardena High School/Los Angeles Unified School District Collection" By Jean Stern, California State University Dominguez Hills (1998), p. 50, illustrated. "Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California’s Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralise" By John Alan Walker, J. Walker Bookseller (1992), p. 128. |