24×30 ORRIN AUGUSTINE WHITE “SPRINGTIME IN THE VALLEY” Landscape Numbered Print

24×30 ORRIN AUGUSTINE WHITE “SPRINGTIME IN THE VALLEY” Landscape Print 87/1143 Orrin Augustine White (1883-1969) was a California Plein-Air Painter who was known for his poetic depictions of the San Gabriel Mountains. His paintings of the 1920s and 1930s possessed the same qualities that are seen in the works of his Pasadena neighbors, Elmer and Marion Wachtel, an awareness of atmosphere and a sinuous quality of line that is reminiscent of Art Nouveau. His finest paintings usually portrayed swaying eucalyptus, twisted oaks or sycamores, silhouetted against the San Gabriel foothills or the California coast. White was an industrious artist and had one of the longest active careers in California Art, for he exhibited his work consistently for more than fifty-five years. He painted every day from the dawn of California Impressionism in the 1910s until his last months and throughout his life, he remained faithful to the Plein-Air School’s conception of the landscape. It has been established that artists Charles P. Kilgore and Orrin A. White served as US Army camoufleurs in Washington DC during World War I. But it is not commonly known that they were friends of and served in the same camouflage unit as Regionalist painter Grant Wood. Years after the war, in 1933, the three artists exhibited together at Younkers Department Store in Des Moines, for which they were described as having «served in the same camouflage squad during the world war.» A news clipping is included in a series of scrapbooks, put together by Nan Wood (the artist's sister), and is viewable online at the Iowa Digital Library's site for the Figge Art Museum Grant Wood Digital Collection. The source of the news article w … Displaying 750 of 6245 characters. Print appears to have damage. Please look at pictures closely. If requested I can send more photos. Most of the damage is in the center of the painting. About the size of a half dollar. 87/1143