William Ritschel, N.A. (1864-1949)

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William Ritschel, N.A.
"A Dutch Village"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Across the Plains, Arizona" - Oil on canvas - 40" x 45" - Signed lower right <br> <br>Museum label on reverse: Fort Worth Art Association; Exhibited: Carmel Art Association/1989 "Our First Five National Academicians"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Across the Plains, Arizona"
1912

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Beached" - Oil on canvas/masonite - 7 1/4" X 10" - Signed lower right <br> <br>Considered one of America's foremost marine painters, William Ritschel's presence as a resident artist on the Monterey Peninsula added greatly to the substance and prestige of the California art community. <br> <br>Ritschel moved to California sometime after 1909. He exhibited at the S.F. Art Institute in 1911, at the P.P.I.E., 1915 where he won a gold medal, and at the California State Fair in 1916. In 1921 he and his wife moved into the unique, castle-like, stone studio-home he had built high on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Carmel Highlands.
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Beached"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Canal in Holland" - Oil on board - 8" x 6"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Canal in Holland"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Carmel Highlands Coast" - Oil on board - 24" x 36"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Carmel Highlands Coast"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Carmel Highlands Coast" - Oil on board - 16" x 20" - Inscribed, signed and dated lower left: 'To my friends, the MacDougals, by W. Ritschel, 1918'. Also inscribed on reverse. <br> Dr. MacDougal was recognized as the leading American authority on desert ecology. By 1909 he had established a coastal botanical lab for the Carnegie Institute in Carmel and he and Ritschel formed a friendship. <br> <br>Ritschel’s superb interpretations of the California coast earned him the title of Dean of American Marine Painters. “Few marine painters know the sea as Ritschel does…when he paints a fine marine you feel in it the beauty and the danger, the cruel, barren ocean-love which will not <br>release the enthralled painter.” (Antony Anderson) <br> <br>He was a master of any mood – the violence of a storm-tossed surf, the reverent beauty of a Pacific sunset, the ethereal-like feeling of a moonlit lagoon in the South Seas. <br> <br>Ritschel was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria. In his youth he spent several years as a sailor before entering the Royal Academy in Munich. His talent as an artist combined with his love of the sea resulted in marine painting being the primary focus of his work. <br> <br>He immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Within a few years he was exhibiting and winning awards alongside well-known Eastern artists including Paul Dougherty, Ernest Lawson, Childe Hassam, Edward Redfield, Willard Metcalf, and J. Alden Weir. He became a member of the Salmagundi Club in 1901 and was also a member of the New York Water Color Club and the American Watercolor Society. In 1910 he was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design (ANA). In 1913 he received that Academy’s Carnegie Prize and following year received the gold medal and was elected a National Academician (NA). <br> <br>Around 1909 Ritschel and his wife, Zora, moved to California and by 1911 became regular spring-summer residents of Carmel first renting a studio/home in the Carmel Highlands from J.F. Devendorf and Frank Powers through the Carmel Development Company. He exhibited at the S.F. Art Institute in 1911. In 1914 the New York Times called him ‘one of the strongest painters of the country’ and included him among the “notable” artists of Carmel. He won a gold medal at the P.P.I.E., 1915, and at the California State Fair in 1916. Outside of Carmel the private art gallery in the Hotel Del Monte was his most prominent venue on the Monterey Peninsula between 1916 and 1934. <br> <br>In 1921 he moved into the unique, castle-like, stone studio-home he had built high on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Carmel Highlands. He called it ‘Castel a Mare’. From his “Castel a Mare” Ritschel said that "He watched the sea…until he made himself master of a marine color-magic…"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Carmel Highlands Coast"
1918

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Coming Through the Fog" - Oil on canvas - 25"x30"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Coming Through the Fog"
circa 1925

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Crashing Waves, Carmel Coast" - Oil on panel - 12"x16"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Crashing Waves, Carmel Coast"
circa 1915

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Dutch Boats On Shore" - Oil on canvas - 8 3/4" x 9" - Signed lower right; titled and signed on reverse.
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Dutch Boats On Shore"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Echos of the Deep" - Oil on canvas - 36" x 40"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Echos of the Deep"
c.1920

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Farm Scene in Holland" - Watercolor - 17" x 25" sight size
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Farm Scene in Holland"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Fishermens' Horses" - Oil on canvas - 30" x 40"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Fishermens' Horses"
c. 1914

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Glorious Pacific" - Oil on canvas - 20" x 24" - Signed lower left. Titled & signed on reverse. <br> <br>Ritschel moved into his Carmel Highlands studio/home in 1921 - painting the ocean in its many moods.
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Glorious Pacific"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Katywck" - Holland - Oil on masonite - 29 3/4" x 36"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Katywck" - Holland

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Kelp Gathering By Moonlight" - Oil on canvas - 20" x 24"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Kelp Gathering By Moonlight"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Kelp Gathering" - Oil on canvas/board - 16" x 20"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Kelp Gathering"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Mammoth Cove" - Carmel Highlands - Oil on canvas - 18" x 24"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Mammoth Cove" - Carmel Highlands
c.1918

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Moon Path" - Watercolor - 9 1/2" x 11 1/2" site size
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Moon Path"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Moonlight on the Coast" - Oil on canvas - 48" x 61"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Moonlight on the Coast"
1913

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Morning Littany" - Oil on canvas - 25" x 30"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Morning Littany"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Native Life" - Watercolor - 13 1/2" x 10 1/2" site size
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Native Life"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Point Lobos" - Oil on canvas - 16"x20"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Point Lobos"
c.1912

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Rocks and Water" - Point Lobos - Oil on canvas - 12" x 16"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Rocks and Water" - Point Lobos

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Rocky Coast at Carmel Highlands" - Oil on board - 16" x 20" - PROVENANCE: <br>When Salmon Fletcher Dutton was born on 17 November 1908, in Philippines, his father, Salmon Fletcher Dutton, was 38 and his mother, Laura May Chase, was 27. He married Sallie Kinsman on 15 January 1935, in Orange, California, United States. He lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1920 and Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. He died on 8 May 1986, in Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 77. <br> <br>Present owner by inheritance from his mother who was the third wife of Fletcher Dutton. <br>Originally owned by Fletcher and Sallie Dutton who were friends of William Ritschel. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>BIOGRAPHY: <br> <br>WILLIAM RITSCHEL, N.A. (1864-1949) <br> <br>Ritschel’s superb interpretations of the California coast earned him the title of Dean of American Marine Painters. “Few marine painters know the sea as Ritschel does…when he paints a fine marine you feel in it the beauty and the danger, the cruel, barren ocean-love which will not <br>release the enthralled painter.” (Antony Anderson) <br> <br>He was a master of any mood – the violence of a storm-tossed surf, the reverent beauty of a Pacific sunset, the ethereal-like feeling of a moonlit lagoon in the South Seas. <br> <br>Ritschel was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria. In his youth he spent several years as a sailor before entering the Royal Academy in Munich. His talent as an artist combined with his love of the sea resulted in marine painting being the primary focus of his work. <br> <br>He immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Within a few years he was exhibiting and winning awards alongside well-known Eastern artists including Paul Dougherty, Ernest Lawson, Childe Hassam, Edward Redfield, Willard Metcalf, and J. Alden Weir. He became a member of the Salmagundi Club in 1901 and was also a member of the New York Water Color Club and the American Watercolor Society. In 1910 he was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design (ANA). In 1913 he received that Academy’s Carnegie Prize and following year received the gold medal and was elected a National Academician (NA). <br> <br>Around 1909 Ritschel and his wife, Zora, moved to California and by 1911 became regular spring-summer residents of Carmel first renting a studio/home in the Carmel Highlands from J.F. Devendorf and Frank Powers through the Carmel Development Company. He exhibited at the S.F. Art Institute in 1911. In 1914 the New York Times called him ‘one of the strongest painters of the country’ and included him among the “notable” artists of Carmel. He won a gold medal at the P.P.I.E., 1915, and at the California State Fair in 1916. Outside of Carmel the private art gallery in the Hotel Del Monte was his most prominent venue on the Monterey Peninsula between 1916 and 1934. <br> <br>In 1921 he moved into the unique, castle-like, stone studio-home he had built high on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Carmel Highlands. He called it ‘Castel a Mare’. From his “Castel a Mare” Ritschel said that "He watched the sea…until he made himself master of a marine color-magic…"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Rocky Coast at Carmel Highlands"
1925

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Rocky Coast" - Point Lobos - Oil on board - 12" x 16"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Rocky Coast" - Point Lobos

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Rocky Seascape" - Point Lobos - Oil on canvas - 18" x 24"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Rocky Seascape" - Point Lobos

William Ritschel, N.A. - "South Coast Cliffs" - Oil on board - 15 1/2" x 19 1/2"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"South Coast Cliffs"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Spring On The Seacoast, Calif." - Oil on canvas - 25"x30"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Spring On The Seacoast, Calif."

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Still-Life" - Oil on board - 10" x 8"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Still-Life"
c. 1929

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Stormy Coast" - Oil on canvas - 20"x24"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Stormy Coast"
circa 1920

William Ritschel, N.A. - "The Belated Shell Fisher, Holland" - Oil on masonite - 26" x 36"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"The Belated Shell Fisher, Holland"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "The Tide Returns" - Oil on canvasboard - 12"x16"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"The Tide Returns"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Through Rough Waters" - Oil on board - 9 1/2" x 16"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Through Rough Waters"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Thundering Surf" - Oil on canvas - 15" x 24" - Signed lower right <br>Titled and signed on reverse
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Thundering Surf"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Wind Carved Cypresses, Point Lobos" - Oil on canvas - 30" x 36"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Wind Carved Cypresses, Point Lobos"

William Ritschel, N.A. - "Withered Sentinels" - Oil on canvas - 34" x 40"
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William Ritschel, N.A.
"Withered Sentinels"