Carl Eytel (September 12, 1862 - September 17, 1925) is a German American artist who built his reputation for descriptions of desert subjects in Southwest America. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. With his extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with writer George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Colorado Desert Wonders, and contributed over 300 pictures for a work in 1908. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as a recluse and would die in poverty. The most important work of Eytel, Desert Near Palm Springs , depends on the History Room of the State Library of California.
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Life
Early life and immigration
Carl Eytel was born as Karl Adolf Wilhelm Eytel in Maichingen, BÃÆ'¶blingen to Tusnelda (nÃÆ' Â © e Schmid) and Friederick Hermann Eytel, a Lutheran minister in the Kingdom of WÃÆ'¼rttemberg (now the state of Baden-WÃÆ'¼rttemberg, near Stuttgart), Germany. As a man, he became his grandfather's ward when his father died. Eytel was highly educated in the German gymnasium and became enamored of Western Americans while reading works by the writer of Prussia's natural science and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whom he found in the Royal Library of Stuttgart. From 1880 to 1884 he studied forestry in TÃÆ'¼bingen and then compiled into the German Army. He first traveled to the United States in 1885 on board the Suevia ship and worked as a ranch hand in Kansas. Then he worked at the slaughterhouse for 18 months to earn a living and learn cattle. In 1891, he read an article about the Palm Springs area in San Francisco Called and incited to visit the California desert.
Palm Springs
Eytel returned to Germany to study art for 18 months (1897-1898) at Royal Art School Stuttgart and then immigrated to the United States. Wanting to be a cowboy, he worked as a bouncer in San Joaquin Valley and in 1903 he would settle in Palm Springs. Living in his own little cottage, Palm Springs will remain his home. Eytel often walked on his journey, taking 400 miles in the Colorado Desert on foot. On one of his journeys, he nearly died as a horse thief and in 1918, during a trip to northern Arizona, he was threatened with the death penalty as a German spy.
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Work
While living for the most part as a "desert rat" and a starving artist, he both traveled alone across Southwest America and accompanied writer J. Smeaton Chase and painter Jimmy Swinnerton on their way. Serving as George Wharton James's guide to "any obvious and vague location of importance," he illustrates the two volumes of James The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. The work was successful and received generally favorable reviews. The collaboration in this book runs from 1903 to 1907. Eytel's illustrations were also used by James in his 1906 article, "Colorado Desert: General Kearney Saw It".
Success
In 1908 Eytel was exhibiting works in Pasadena and enjoying the socialite protection of Martha M. Newkirk. He also plans to build a bungalow in Beaumont, California. And, in 1909, his work was exhibited at major art venues and Kanst galleries in Los Angeles. Then, in 1911, after traveling with Chase on horseback, he donated 21 realistic line art pictures for Chase's book, Cone-bearing Trees in the Mountains of California .
In addition to his work on the Colorado Desert Miracle and Cone-Bearing Tree, Eytel contributes (both images and articles) to the best publications, including the Los Angeles Times and , for nearly 14 years, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung . (During his trip to the southwest he became friends with the Charles Lummis city editor Charles Lummis.) The stone wall in the hotel's early dining room. Welwood Murray is covered with Eytel Palm Canyon mural. Hundreds of images from the original palms are his trademark and he is known as "The Artist of the Palms". His work helped publish Palm Springs early. In 1977 his work sold for $ 10,000 and below.
"Creative Brotherhood"
Together with the naturalist Edmund C. Jaeger, and the writers Chase and Charles Francis Saunders, Eytel is a core member of what Professor Peter Wild of the University of Arizona called the "Creative Brotherhood" who lived in Palm Springs early in the 20th century. Other Brotherhood members include cartoonists and painter Swinnerton, author James, and photographers Fred Payne Clatworthy and Stephen H. Willard. The people live near each other (like Eytel, Jaeger builds his own cabin), travels around the Southwest, helps with their work, and exchanges photos that appear in their books.
The brotherhood lasted from 1915 when Jaeger, who was a teacher at the one-room schoolhouse of Palm Springs, met with Eytel and Chase. It ended in 1923 when Chase died. (In 1924, after completing his studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Jaeger began his 30-year teaching career at Riverside Junior College in Riverside, California.) Jaeger wrote an early speech to Eytel after his death and in 1948, remembering his time with him, Jaeger said :
As an artist Eytel is largely self-taught.... Not many schools, but widely read. Eytel has knowledge not only of Greek and Roman but also the best literature of English, American and his native country, Germany. I never knew Eytel was sleeping indoors. Trying to persuade herself to trouble in that belief will strengthen its constitution....
Over the years it was Eytel who served as their "spiritual head". Even after Jaeger went to finish his studies and Chase married the rich White Isabel (1917), three, plus Saunders, often exchanging letters. Suffering from "coughing and persistent cough", Eytel remains in Palm Springs, poor, and Swinnerton will buy art supplies for him. Later Eytel became an ascetic.
Smokyree School
J Journalist Ann Japenga has characterized Eytel's work as "Smoketree School" - a school named after favorite desert art subject, smoketree. The school has its origins with Alson S. Clark and Jack Frost, who were influenced by the French impressionist, Claude Monet. Other Smoketree artists include Carl Bray, Fred Chisnall, Maynard Dixon, Clyde Forsythe, Sam Hyde Harris, John Hilton, R. Brownell McGrew, Agnes Pelton, Hanson Puthuff and Swinnerton.
Style and subject
Like many artists in the southwest of the desert, Eytel's style is impressionistic. The subjects are varied and include the San José Mission © TumacÃÆ'¡cori, in the TumacÃÆ'¡cori National Historical Park near Nogales, Arizona (pre-restoration), and California Mission San Gabriel Arcangel and Mission San Juan Capistrano Spanish mission. His drawings for the Cone-bearing Tree in the Mountains of California and the Magic of the Colorado Desert are specifically detailed and include Desert Bighorn Sheep, desert reptiles, and livestock. (His Mirage in the Desert (1905), painted for Wonders , describes cows and cowboys.)
Eytel describes the lives of Navajo, Hopi, Cahuilla, Serrano, and Kamia, including the New Mexico Eight Northern Pueblos landscape in San Ildefonso, Laguna, Tesuque and Taos Pueblo. The Walpi Pueblo at First Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Arizona, and Cocopah near Calexico, California are also drawn.
Candidates working in the Anaconda (Dale District) and Manana (Colorado River) mines in Arizona and the famous Picacho gold mine were drawn, as did Rancho Guajome Adobe near Encinitas, California, Sierra Bonita Ranch near Fort Grant, Arizona, the turn of the century Tucson, Arizona , and Yuma Territorial Prison, Yuma, Arizona.
Scenes from early Palm Springs include the postal station and William Pester - "The Hermit of Palm Springs".
Eytel views and mountain views at Wonders include:
- Ehrenberg, Arizona
- Algodones, including Pilot Knob landmarks, Imperial County, California
- Palo Verde, Arizona
- San Jacinto National Forest, California
- Oak Creek Canyon, in Coconino National Forest, Arizona
- Mt. San Gorgonio, California
- Mt. San Jacinto, California
- Royal Gorge, Colorado
- Peak of San Francisco near Flagstaff, Arizona
- Sentinel Rock and the Cathedral Tower in Yosemite Valley, California
- Peak of Tahquitz, near Idyllwild, California
- Twin Buttes, Navajo County, Arizona
Awards
Eytel is a friend of the Cahuilla people and they allow him to be buried at their funeral in Palm Springs after he died of tuberculosis at a Banning, California sanatorium. His funeral and burial were arranged by Nellie Coffman, who founded the original Desert Inn in the village of Palm Springs in 1909.
Eytel received the following speech from Saunders' inscription in August 1926:
But for Carl Eytel, the pioneer of Palm Springs artist, who worked there long before the fashion world heard the place, Palm Springs was his home, and a desert of his life. He knows it in all seasons, in all the mood, and he paints it with a kind of religious spirit that arises from unceasing love, in season and out. The others are better than him, but when you see a canvas by Eytel at best you look into what appears to be the heart of the desert.
His paintings Desert near Palm Springs (1914) are featured in the California History Room at the State Library of California. The Palm Springs Art Museum has a set of Eytel sketches and displays his paintings.
The desert bush amphipappus fremontii is given the common name "eytelia" in his honor. The short "Via Eytel" in Palm Springs is named in his honor, as is the short "Eytel Road" in the adjacent Cathedral City.
See also
Notes and references
Further reading
External links
- USC's Digital Library, Carl Eytel
- Artnet.com: auction results in Carl Eytel (subscription required) (Contains images of A Rio Grande Pueblo and Beef cattle )
- Ask/Art. The Artist's Bluebook: Carl A. Eytel (subscription required) (Contains biographical material and painting image)
- Inheritance Auction: Carl Eytel (registration required) (Contains images of Palm Desert and California Palms , sold in auction.)
- Braun Research Library Collection: Carl Eytel (394 images) Autry National Center, which stores original images by Eytel for Colorado Desert Wonders
- Carl Eytel in the Search of the Mausoleum
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