DOI Heft:
Nr. 334 (March 1925)
DOI Artikel:Comstock, Helen: Painter of east and west
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0226
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he was only three years old. When he began to
study painting he went to the National Academy
of Design where his instructors were E. M. Ward,
George W. Maynard and Francis C. Jones. Later
he traveled in Europe but his journey was one of
observation only. He did not enter any of the
schools. When he returned to this country it was
not long before he went to California to live. It
was about 1910 that he gave up whatever interest
he had had in figure painting and definitely
decided on landscape. He was living in the heart
of a country which is irresistible to a painter.
From his studio on Point Loma he could look
across the bay to San Diego and on to the moun-
tains of Mexico in the distance. The continuous
interplay of color and form, both projected on a
Titanic scale, brought mountains, sea and sky
into a pageant which demanded recording. For
the next ten years he found most of his subjects
in this region with an occasional interlude in
which he left the Coast Range for the more rugged
Sierras. His work in the latter region is exem-
plified here in the painting "Lower Gale Lake"
whose frigid clear atmosphere is quite different
from the golden mists which make his "San
Diego Hills" radiant. The latter won a gold
medal at the Panama-California Exposition at
San Diego in 1915 and another landscape of his
won a similar award at the International Exposi-
tion held there a year later. His pictures are in
the municipal collection of Phoenix, Arizona, and
the San Diego Museum. During this period he
frequently sent pictures to the National Academy
of Design in New York, having won a Hallgarten
Prize there in 1900. He held several exhibitions
in New York galleries and in 1921 closed his Point
Loma studio and returned to the East to paint.
He first established himself in a studio at Silver-
mine, near Norwalk, Connecticut, and later in
Lyme where he was represented in the annual
exhibition of the Lyme Art Association in the
summer of 1923.
During his eastern visit he held one exhibition
in Hartford and later another in New York, at
the Macbeth Galleries. He also sent a group of
landscapes to Dallas, Texas, and various cities of
the Southwest. In Dallas fourteen of his paint-
ings were sold within fifteen minutes after the
Jour eighty-six
MARCH I925
sruoto
he was only three years old. When he began to
study painting he went to the National Academy
of Design where his instructors were E. M. Ward,
George W. Maynard and Francis C. Jones. Later
he traveled in Europe but his journey was one of
observation only. He did not enter any of the
schools. When he returned to this country it was
not long before he went to California to live. It
was about 1910 that he gave up whatever interest
he had had in figure painting and definitely
decided on landscape. He was living in the heart
of a country which is irresistible to a painter.
From his studio on Point Loma he could look
across the bay to San Diego and on to the moun-
tains of Mexico in the distance. The continuous
interplay of color and form, both projected on a
Titanic scale, brought mountains, sea and sky
into a pageant which demanded recording. For
the next ten years he found most of his subjects
in this region with an occasional interlude in
which he left the Coast Range for the more rugged
Sierras. His work in the latter region is exem-
plified here in the painting "Lower Gale Lake"
whose frigid clear atmosphere is quite different
from the golden mists which make his "San
Diego Hills" radiant. The latter won a gold
medal at the Panama-California Exposition at
San Diego in 1915 and another landscape of his
won a similar award at the International Exposi-
tion held there a year later. His pictures are in
the municipal collection of Phoenix, Arizona, and
the San Diego Museum. During this period he
frequently sent pictures to the National Academy
of Design in New York, having won a Hallgarten
Prize there in 1900. He held several exhibitions
in New York galleries and in 1921 closed his Point
Loma studio and returned to the East to paint.
He first established himself in a studio at Silver-
mine, near Norwalk, Connecticut, and later in
Lyme where he was represented in the annual
exhibition of the Lyme Art Association in the
summer of 1923.
During his eastern visit he held one exhibition
in Hartford and later another in New York, at
the Macbeth Galleries. He also sent a group of
landscapes to Dallas, Texas, and various cities of
the Southwest. In Dallas fourteen of his paint-
ings were sold within fifteen minutes after the
Jour eighty-six
MARCH I925