William Wendt (1865-1946)
Laguna Hills
signed and dated 'William Wendt 1928' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in.
framed 34 x 39 in.
Footnotes:
Exhibited
Irvine, The Irvine Museum, California Impressionism: Selections from the Irvine Museum, September 28, 2013 - January 9, 2014.

Literature
Jean Stern, California: This Golden Land of Promise, Irvine, 2001, p. 325, illustrated.
Will South, In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt, Irvine, 2008, p. 94, illustrated on the cover.
Jean Stern, Selections from the Irvine Museum, Irvine, 2009 (reprise of the 1992 exhibition of the same name), p. 246-247, illustrated.

A copy of In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt is included with this lot.

Canvas has been wax lined and the stretcher bars replaced. Under UV examination, scattered spots of retouch along the upper stretcher bar to address previous crease with some fluorescence in the white pigments isolated in the sky. Craquelure only visible under UV. A scattering of tiny white spots in center and center right tree that may be gesso ground showing through.

Presented in a gold gilt scoop Mayen Olson frame.