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Choose The Soil as a hand painted oil painting and skip the compromise of printed wall decor. Based on William Wendt's original. Our artists rebuild the fine art composition stroke by stroke, producing refined canvas wall art with lasting color depth.
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 in.
Private collection.
In his 1926 exhibition catalogue on the artist's work, Earl Stendahl writes colorfully of this painting 'The Spring verdure on the sheer hill that focuses the eye of the beholder carries evanescent blue shadows. The smiling foreground valley shows the verdure as that which gives such keen loveliness to the hill. The soil along the banks of the winding stream is a dull gold in color, and the lower lands show maroon and lavender. The opulent peace of California breathes through the picture'.
In the mid 1920's, Wendt painted a group of oils in and around the Nine Sisters, or the Morros. These are a chain of nine volcanic mountains and hills in western San Luis Obispo County. They run between Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo. The Soil depicts one of those volcanic formations. His most famous oil from this group of paintings is Where Nature's God Hath Wrought. In Will South's book In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt he remarks of this work that 'It is at once the mountain we struggle to climb, a symbol of life and work. It is again nature as God's formidable handiwork, looming above us and pointing, literally, heavenward.' South adds, 'It thus evokes time and endurance, God and man, and the earth itself that we would dare manipulate. This painting, in essence, was [for] William Wendt, the closest thing he would make to a self-portrait, a deliberate and very formal paean to everything in which he believed.' The same may be said of The Soil equally. It reveals what a significant impact these scenes had on the artist's life.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for an entryway.
Materials matter for refined wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this refined oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
Browse our William Wendt Paintings selection for related fine art canvases, or commission this fine art image in a custom size. Every order is a hand painted oil painting, never a printed poster.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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