Arthur Atkins (Painter)

Arthur Atkins (Painter)

Arthur Atkins (1873, England¹ - 8 January 1899, Piedmont, California) was a tonalist landscape painter who emigrated to San Francisco as a young child. He was essentially self-taught, but studied briefly at the San Francisco School of Design. His paintings were shown at the Vickery, Atkins & Torrey gallery and at his Jackson Street studio, both in San Francisco, and his paintings sold well. His brother, Henry Atkins and his uncle, William Kingston Vickery were co-founders of the Vickery, Atkins & Torrey art gallery.

Between 1897 and August 1898, Atkins visited England and France and studied art in Paris. He was mostly influenced by the paintings of Edouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler while in Europe.

Atkins' favorite landscape subject were the rolling hills near Piedmont, across the bay from San Francisco. Atkins' works are very rare due to a fire at his San Francisco studio in the 1890's, further losses in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and his premature death at age 25.

A book of Atkins' notes and letters, from his visit to Europe, by A. M. Robertson and Bruce Porter, was published in 1908.

¹ Various sources give Atkins' place of birth as either Queen's Ferry, England or Egremont, Cheshire, England.

Works - Partial List

*"Piedmont Valley" (1895)
*"Piedmont Hills" (1896)
*"Landscape" (1896)
*"Piedmont" (1896)
*"Pines: St. Hospice" (1897)
*"The Marne: Charenton" (1898)
*"The Basin: St. Cloud" (1898)
*"Charenton" (1898)
*"Penarth Pier" (1898)

ource

*"California Art Research", Vol V (1937), Work Projects Administration
*"The Letters of Arthur Atkins" (1908), A. M. Robertson and Bruce Porter
*"Art in California" (1916), Bruce Porter, Porter Garnett, et al.
*"Artists of the American West", Vol III (1985), Doris Ostrander Dawdy
*"Artists in California 1786 - 1940" (1989), Edan Milton Hughes


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