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Benjamin Sears
Springtime, Mount Tamalpais, California
circa 1870

Name: Springtime, Mount Tamalpais, California
Brand: Benjamin Sears
Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)

$4,400List Price

About the Item

The lovely blue of the sky, the depth of field, the slight haze over the mountain, the light salmon pink blossoms on an apple tree and a crude road or path leading to a home on one of Mt. Tamalpais's many foothills give us this delightful rendering of one of the most beautiful places in the world by this early California landscapist. Painter. Born in Guilford, CT on May 16, 1846. Sears's father had come to California in 1852 and followed placer mining in the vicinity of Sonora. Ben and his two brothers made the trip to Sonora via Panama in 1862. He came to San Francisco in 1868 and worked as a photographer in several galleries until the early 1870s when he switched to oil painting. He spent a great deal of time in the studios of various painters where he may have learned to paint by observing the techniques of these artists. He left San Francisco in 1878 and returned to Sonora, working for a short while as a sketch artist for the U.S. Signal Coast Survey which took him all over northern California. While in San Francisco Sears had painted mostly nocturnes and inshore marine views, but after his return to Sonora, he concentrated on landscapes of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite and Tuolumne County. Poor and with a wife and five children to support, Sears was often compelled to paint on whatever surfaces were available to him for want of canvases (i.e., door panels, pie tins, etc.) The signature on his paintings was most often the letter B overlayed with the letter S; in his later years his work became paler and bluer. He died on a sketching trip in Pacific Grove, CA on Nov. 18, 1905 and was buried in Sonora. Approximately 200 of his paintings are extant. Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1873-75, 1902-05; Newhall Co. (SF), 1877 (solo); Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1878; Calif. State Fair, 1890; Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909; Society of Calif. Pioneers, 1965. In: CHS; Oakland Museum; CSL; Society of Calif. Pioneers; Tuolumne County Historical Society. History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis, 1906, vol. 2, p. 63; Census; SF Chronicle, 5-16-1965. Source - Eden Hughes

Creator:
Benjamin Sears (1846 - 1905, American)
Creation Year:
circa 1870
Dimensions:
Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Mid-19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Graton, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU31021425773

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