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  • Edgar Alwin Payne
    Mar 01, 1883 - Apr 08, 1947
  • Laguna Beach - Edgar Alwin Payne was an American painter. He was known as a Western landscape painter and muralist. Recognized as one of California's leading landscape artists, 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.
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    23 x 27 inches (58.4 x 68.6 cm)

    At the turn of the century, Laguna Beach, California lent its unspoiled nature, picturesque terrain and desirable climate to the inspiration of many artists. Edgar Payne first visited Laguna Beach in 1909 and on that trip he met his future wife, artist Elsie Palmer (1884-1971). Ten years later Elsie and Edgar returned to Laguna and kept a studio for a number of years where the vast and colorful coast of Southern California proved perfect for creating light bathed landscapes. Along with artists Frank Cuprien, Anna Hills and William Wendt, Payne founded the Laguna Beach Art Association and served as its first president in 1920. The Laguna Beach Art Association, as the first public art gallery in Southern California served a pivotal role in shaping the Impressionist movement in California. Payne, like many Impressionists, painted en plein-air allowing him to capture the ephemeral qualities of sunlight on his canvases. He often would paint a number of oil sketches on location and from those sketches create larger, finished works in his studio. The present example depicts a bright, clear day on the coast with sailboats and seagulls on the horizon. Payne used thick brush strokes and saturated hues to emphasize the change of light from a pure, clear sky to an area obstructed by a cloud in the right foreground.

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Other paintings by Edgar Alwin Payne:

La Canada Afternoon
La Canada Afternoon
La Marque Lake, High Sierra
La Marque Lake, High Sierra
Laguna Beach Area Seascape
Laguna Beach Area Seascape
Laguna Beach Coastal Scene
Laguna Beach Coastal Scene
Edgar Alwin PayneBorn in rural Missouri, Edgar Alwin Payne grew up in the Ozark Mountains which instilled in him a love for the wilderness that would remain with him for the rest of his life. By the age of fourteen, Payne was completely on his own and made his way painting houses, signs, and stage sets until he reached Chicago and began a brief period of formal training in fine art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

While in Chicago, Payne learned of a nascent art colony located at Laguna Beach, California. In 1911 he made his first visit to the region that would provide him with a lifetime of inspiration and which he was to immortalize on canvas. By 1917 Payne had made Laguna Beach his home. Here he was inspired by subjects that were close at hand: Santa Catalina, Laguna Canyon, and the Laguna shoreline. However, Payne was driven by an incessant wanderlust that lured him away from the southland. Between 1922 and 1924, he traveled Europe and completed a series of impressive maritime and mountain scenes which strongly suggest his more mature work.

Upon his return from Europe, Payne began the body of work for which he is justifiably most famous, his paintings of the California Sierras. Over a period of twenty years, Payne repeatedly found inspiration in the dense forests and ever-imposing peaks of the High Sierras. Occasionally, Payne would make sketching and painting trips to northern Arizona and New Mexico, producing canvases that were totally different in palette from his other themes. Payne's talent enabled him to project the vastness of the Southwest, recording the silence of the weather-shaped monuments and magnifying their immensity by comparing them to humans. His death in 1947 ended a life-long love of the West recorded in unforgettable canvases by this accomplished painter.

Payne's work is held in the collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; the Springville Museum of Art, Utah; the Brigham Young University Fine Arts Collection, Provo; and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.