George S Tilden

George S Tilden - California Landscape - Oil on Canvas c.1920s P3905

Regular price $750.00

A charmer. Great sense of the heat haze of a summer morning in the hills.

Art measure 16" x 20", and the original; frame is 19" x 23". Stamped on the back of the canvas as #336 from his studio.

Born in Boston, MA on Jan. 2, 1867.  Tilden came to San Francisco at age five.  He was most active as a painter in northern California circa 1913 when he painted landscapes of Marin County and Donner Lake.  A real estate salesman for forty years, he died in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 1932.

Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Death Record; SF Chronicle, 2-27-1932 (obit).


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