DeWitt Parshall (1864-1956) Grand Canyon - Monotype - 1910-1915 AP1992

Extraordinary image, perfectly rendered through the monotype process that conveys so much power. The Grand Canyon was a subject he returned to time and again. He was not an artist to be dwarfed by that subject.

From a Santa Barbara estate, signed in ink. Short bio pasted on back of frame

An expressive painter of coastal and landscape views, DeWitt Parshall was born in Buffalo, New York, and graduated in 1885 from Hobart College where he irritated faculty members because of his ability to do caricatures.  He also studied at DeVeaux school in Niagara Falls, the Royal Academy at Dresden, and from 1886-1882, had further study at the Julian and Cormon academies in Paris.

He set up a studio in New York City, but his interest was western landscape, and he became a member of the Society of Painters of the West. From 1910 to 1917, he did a series of paintings of the Grand Canyon for which he remains best known.  Full of emotion and color, they have been labeled "expressive".  In 1917, he moved for the remainder of his life to Santa Barbara, California, where he specialized in coastals and landscapes.

He was also the father of the artist Douglass Parshall, also represented in our collection.