William F. Jackson
SOLD
Title:
"Castle Peak in the Sierras"
Size:
7 3/4" x 10 1/2"
Medium:
Oil on board
Signed:
Signed L.L.
Signed lower left
Artist's title on reverse
"…Sacramento's leading painter during the late nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Jackson launched into a career as a landscape painter, whose early works show the influence of his friend William Keith. His paintings often depict subjects near his favorite retreat in the Sierra Nevada, the Soda Springs/North Fork of the American River area.
In 1885 he became the curator of the newly-founded Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento and served in that role for the next fifty years."
Exerpt from: Meadows and Mountains/The Art of William F. Jackson by Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. - The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, 2009.
Artist's title on reverse
"…Sacramento's leading painter during the late nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Jackson launched into a career as a landscape painter, whose early works show the influence of his friend William Keith. His paintings often depict subjects near his favorite retreat in the Sierra Nevada, the Soda Springs/North Fork of the American River area.
In 1885 he became the curator of the newly-founded Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento and served in that role for the next fifty years."
Exerpt from: Meadows and Mountains/The Art of William F. Jackson by Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. - The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, 2009.
