Hernado Villa Indian Vista Oil on Canvas Circa 1915 for sale
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Item ID: 398106
Item Description
Hernando Villa Oil on canvas of Native Americans on a vista overlooking a Valley in The Early West. Indicative of his early work for the Santa Fe Railroad of the period. Circa 1915. Signed Hernado Villa L.A. Ca Scratch to sky restored by an expert in the field. Beautiful colors and subject matter. Born in Los Angeles, CA on Oct. 1, 1881, the son of Esiquia and Miguel de Villa. His parents came to Los Angeles from Baja California in 1846 when the area was still part of Mexico. Raised in an artistic milieu, his mother was an amateur singer and his father an artist with a studio on the Plaza. Villa studied locally under Louise Garden-MacLeod at the School of Art & Design in 1905, and later taught there after studying for one year in England and Germany. He established a studio in Los Angeles and worked as a commercial artist and illustrator for the Santa Fe Railroad for 40 years. He died in Los Angeles on May 7, 1952. Equally facile with oil, watercolor, pastel, and charcoal, he produced scenes of the Old West, Indians, missions, and the Mexican vaqueros. Villa's most famous work is the emblem of the Santa Fe Railroad, The Chief. Exh: Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909; PPIE, 1915 (gold medal for mural); Royar’s Frame Shop (LA), 1934; El Paseo Inn (LA), 1935; Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1935; Ebell Gallery (LA), 1937; Associated Artists (LA), 1941. In: Citizen's Trust & Savings Bank, LA (mural); LACMA; Fort Worth Museum; Santa Fe Railroad; New Rialto Theatre, Phoenix, AZ (mural); Orange Co. (CA) Museum.A commercial artist and painter, Hernando Villa had a specialty that was the Old West--landscape, Southwest Indians, and missions, which he did in oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal. But his most famous work is "The Chief," emblem of the Santa Fe Railroad. He also did murals including one for the New Rialto Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. Villa was born in Los Angeles, California, and was raised in a cultured Mexican family from Baja, California. His mother was a singer and the father was an artist with a studio on the Plaza. He studied locally with Louise Garden-MacLeod at the School of Art and Design and then after studying in Germany and England, taught two years at the School of Art. By 1906, he was working as a commercial artist in Los Angeles where for forty years, he worked as an illustrator for the Santa Fe Railroad. He also played as an "extra" in western films. Source: Peggy and Harold Samuels, "An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American West"
Item Details
Eras: 1920s, 1900s - 1910s
Styles: Spanish, Spanish Colonial, Western, Navajo / Western, Figures, Animals, Mexican/Spanish Flavor
Measurements: 50.8 x 66.0 x CM (H x W x D) Change Unit
Quantity: 1
Condition: Fair Condition / Some Wear
Design History
Designer: Unknown designer
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