Edgar Payne (1883-1947)

Hiro Fine Art is interested in purchasing artworks by Edgar Payne.

• EDGAR PAYNE Oil Painting Temple Crags eo e30 COMPOSITION of OUTDOOR PAINTING The Hisie, American Artists Ce rth Painting by Edgar Payne Anists in California by Edan Hughes Plein Air Painters of California; The Southland by Ruth Wesiphal Samuels Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West by Peggy & Harold Samuels.
• Composition of Outdoor Painting. 7th Edition, 8th printing of the original 1941 publication, many added color plates and addenda by Evelyn Payne Hatcher, the artist/author's daughter. A must for art collectors, artists, teachers and art dealers. Author: Edgar Alwin Payne.

Edgar Payne was born in Washburn, Missouri which was in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. Payne left his home at the age of fourteen and worked painting signs, stage sets, and homes. He traveled throughout the Ozarks, Midwest and Southeastern part of the United States as well as into Mexico. His propensity to travel and see different landscapes would go on to have a profound impact on his life. Payne briefly studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, but found the curriculum too rigid and quit after a few weeks. This was the only academic that he received. Payne was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists and the Palette and Chisel Club. Payne received a commissioned to paint a large mural for the Congress Hotel.

At the age of twenty six, Payne made his way to California, spending his time in Laguna Beach and San Francisco. Laguna Beach went on to serve as an inspiration to his paintings. Several geographic monuments in the area were painted by Payne, including Laguna Canyon, Santa Catalina, and the Laguna shoreline. In San Francisco, Edgar Payne met his future wife the artist Elsie Palmer. The two moved back to Chicago to marry 1912 and lived there for a few years before moving back to California in 1917 and settled back in Laguna Beach shortly thereafter. He was an active member in the Artist Colony and became the president and founder of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Laguna Beach Gallery.

In 1922, Payne and his wife traveled around Europe and visited the culturally rich cities of Paris, Venice, and Rome and was included into a Paris Salon in 1923 and earned an honorable mention. Edgar Payne and his wife moved back to the United States in 1924 and lived between New York City and California. When Edgar Payne decided to settle in Hollywood, California in 1932 he separated from his wife. Payne went on to publish the book “Composition of Outdoor Painting” which was a well received book by artists. He continued to paint scenes around the Southwest until his death in 1947.

Hiro Fine Art is interested in purchasing artwork by Edgar Payne.

• 1883 – Born in Washburn, Missouri
• Briefly studied at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Commissioned by the Congress Hotel to paint a mural
• Moved to California and painted scenes around Laguna Beach
• 1923 – Earned honorable mention at a Paris Salon
• Published “Composition of Outdoor Painting”

Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) was born in Missouri but was raised in Arkansas. At the age of 26 he went to California, discovering and falling in love with Laguna Beach…later to settle there for a time with his wife, Elsie. He met Elsie in San Francisco during that first California visit and later in Chicago where she was a commercial artist. They were married in 1912. As the story goes, on the day of the wedding, the morning light in Chicago was so beautiful that Edgar wanted the ceremony delayed until later in the day so he would have time to capture that light in paint.

In 1918 the couple moved to Laguna Beach, becoming influential in the community. Edgar was instrumental in forming the Laguna Beach Art Association and became its first president.

His favorite subject, the California Sierra Nevada Mountains, are represented in some of his most famous paintings. The Sierra’s also inspired his very popular book, which was published in 1941…“Composition of Outdoor Painting”. It’s a comprehensive and instructive book on composition and composition forms. The book also explains landscape painting techniques, color, repetition, rhythm, and value.

Composition of Outdoor Painting Payne, Edgar Alwin on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Composition of Outdoor Painting. If you can only buy one book on composition of Outdoor Painting, this is the one. The original book, published in 1941, has seen several editions and goes in and out of print. Although Amazon often shows that it is out of print, call the publisher directly. They have plenty of brand new copies in.

Here are a few important insights from this great painter concerning preliminary compositional work:

Importance of preliminary work

“In starting the actual arrangements on the canvas, the placing of the horizon or other main lines, and the largest dark and light masses or spaces, is the first consideration. Then the secondary, tertiary and other masses may be placed in whatever location gives the best balance.

“If the student will adopt the habit of putting much time on the preliminary compositional pencil sketches – the preparation for painting – he will have gained aid that will benefit him as long as he paints.

“While any amount of effort may be put into the preliminary notes, the actual work on the picture should go along without a hitch. The less effort, the more pleasure and finer quality.”

Edgar Payne – “High Country-High Sierras” – 12″ x 16″ – Oil

No one is on the road to success until he feels at times that he is entirely beaten.

“Real advancement generally comes from studying and experimenting with one problem until it is mastered.”

Carefully consider the composition.

“Anyone gets into difficulties often enough without attempting to compose with a poorly considered first plan. Often the painter who has not gone into preliminary study of his subject may find after the work is well under way that his horizon is too much centered, or a vertical edge or line divides the canvas in half. Perhaps he has two points of interest, several equal masses or spaces…one or more of the many errors that cause discord and spoils unity.

“The idea in any composing is to get the work to a sense of completion as soon as possible and then proceed with a feeling that the work may be left off at any time. As a matter of fact, many good pictures are ruined by constant striving to make them better.

“There is always a place to stop painting. This is the point where the maximum quality has been achieved.

“The practice of painting in a broad impressionistic manner is best brought out with considerable preliminary planning, and then painting the picture rapidly.”

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