According to the artist, “Nature has more to say than can be caught in a minute, she has lessons for us that may take a lifetime in the learning, and I believe she intends that we landscape painters should mix brains without paint.”

PROVENANCE
Collection of Thomas McNeill, Redondo Beach, CA, circa 1977
Present owners, by descent

EXHIBITED
California Art Club Annual Show, 1928
Oakland Art Gallery Annual Painting and Sculpture, 1929
Laguna Art Association, 1929
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California Art, San Francisco, 1970

LITERATURE
John Walker, Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt (Big Pine, CA: J. Walker, Bookseller, 1992), No. 425