Albert Robert Valentien
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Albert Robert Valentien (1862–1925) was an American
Biography
Valentien was born in
He married artist Anna Marie Bookprinter (née Buchdrucker) in 1887.[2]
Rookwood
In 1884 he joined the Rookwood Pottery Company, and led the art pottery's decoration department for the next twenty years.[2][4]
In 1903, the Valentiens visited Southern California, staying several months with Anna's brother in Dulzura, a small community southeast of San Diego. During that visit, Valentien produced 135 paintings of California wildflowers, exhibiting the collection at the State Normal School in San Diego (present day San Diego State University).[5]
Retiring from Rookwood in 1905, the Valentiens moved to San Diego in 1908.
California flora
Ellen Browning Scripps commissioned Valentien to paint a series of illustrations of California wildflowers with the intention of publishing a compendium of the flora of California. Valentien worked on the project for ten years, and the scope of botanical subjects grew to encompass native grasses, ferns, and trees. Scripps ultimately decided not to publish the flora. Her estate donated most of his paintings in her collection, 1094 in total, to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1933.[1][7]
Albert Robert Valentien died on August 5, 1925, in
Collections
Valentien's paintings and art pottery work are represented in collections of the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the California State Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and in private collections.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9714092-5-0.
- ^ a b Kamerling, Bruce (Summer 1978). "Anna and Albert Valentien: The Arts and Crafts Movement in San Diego". Journal of San Diego History. 24: 343–65.
- ^ Vase by Albert Robert Valentien, Rookwood Pottery Company, 1893, earthenware with mahogany glaze line – Cincinnati Art Museum Collection.
- ^ Simpson, Richard V. (September 1999). "Rookwood pottery: a tradition of excellence". Antiques & Collecting Magazine. 104 (7): 32.
- ^ LaFee, Scott (February 9, 2000). "Valentien's flowers – An artistic tale of beauty, science, talent and heartbreak". San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ^ Valentien Collection, San Diego Natural History Museum: SDNHM ARV 1933-0493 — "Carpenteria californica (Tree anemone)", (1908–1918), watercolor and gouache on paper
- ^ San Diego Natural History Museum: Albert Valentien
- ^ http://collections.lacma.org/node/198338 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) AC1999.252.3 — Earthenware plaque by Albert Robert Valentien for Rookwood Pottery Company, LACMA collection.
Further reading
- Landauer, Susan; Gerdts, William H.; Trenton, Patricia (2003). The Not-so-still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23938-8.
- Williford, Tammie (2000). Albert R. Valentien: The California Years, 1908–1925 (exhibition catalog). Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Galleries.
External links
- The San Diego Natural History Museum−theNat.org: The Valentien Collection — with 1,094 botanical watercolor paintings.
- San Diego Natural History Museum−theNat.org: Information on the artist, and the conservation/exhibition of his paintings
- The San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library houses a significant collection of Albert Valentien's paintings and papers.