Luxembourg Gardens
Clarence HINKLE
(American, 1880-1960)
Luxembourg Gardens
Dateca. 1906-1907
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 10 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (27 × 34.9 cm)
frame: 13 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 1 in. (34.9 × 42.5 × 2.5 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mabel Bain Hinkle
Object number1961.15
Subject(s)
- landscape
- garden
Collection
- 20th century American
On View
On viewLabel TextThe talented Hinkle is California’s most successful exponent of international modernism of the last century. Study abroad throughout Europe, afforded by a traveling scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, lent him a painterly sophistication, as seen here in this atmospheric depiction of the famed grounds of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. This softer Impressionist idiom would eventually give way to a more energetic and linear style, which he applied to our local Santa Barbara landscape after moving to Montecito with his wife Mabel in 1935.
