Elmer Wachtel

In 1906 a Los Angeles Times critic noted, "Elmer Wachtel knows Southern California perhaps more intimately than any other artist. He paints her directly, simply, truthfully, and yet never with topographic hardness and realism..." Today, Wachtel is considered one of Southern California's most important painters from the early twentieth century.
The present work showcases a fine array of new photographic images of paintings by Elmer Wachtel utilizing the Kvamme process of digital enhancement.