Louis Akin

Woodland Shore

Louis Akin's original watercolor, "Woodland Shore" is a masterful rendition of colour, perspective and tonal harmony. It is a fine, original example of the landscape art depicting the American West during the early twentieth century. Woodland Shore is drawn upon hand-made, laid watercolour paper and backed upon board as was customary for watercolors from this period. It is both a beautiful and scarce example of the famous art created by the American artist, Louis B. Akin.

Woodland Shore

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Title:	Woodland Shore
Artist:	Akin, Louis B. 'Louis Akin' (Corvallis, Oregon, 1868 - Flagstaff, Arizona, 1913)
Date:	1900
Medium:	Original Watercolor
Note:	Louis B. Akin 'Louis Akin': Although he died in his forty-fourth year, Louis Akin led a most eventful life. Mainly self taught in art, he worked as a sign painter in his youth. Then, at age eighteen, Louis Akin built and lived in a hut in a remote part of the rocky mountains in order to observe and paint mountain goats and their environment. Managing to sell some of his art to national journals and magazines, Louis B. Akin went to New York to study art formally under William Merrit Chase and Dumond at the New York Art School. Quickly growing disenchanted with academic training, Louis Akin dropped out of the school in less than a year and supported himself as an illustrator. In 1901, he received national attention when Harper's published his illustrated book, A'-Hitten up the Trail, which drew upon the sights and scenery of the famous Oregon Trail. This original watercolour depicting a woodland shore may have been created for this project.
	In 1903 Louis Akin accepted a commission from the Santa Fe Railroad to travel to Arizona and paint the landscape and its native peoples. Traveling on horseback to the Hopi village of Oraibi, he rented a pueblo and lived among the tribe for over a year. There he adopted Hopi native dress and customs and was honoured by his initiation into the Hopi Tribe and was renamed, 'Mapli'. Louis Akin's paintings of the Hopi people and his Arizona landscapes of the Grand Canyon and other scenes won him a huge reputation throughout the United States. In 1911 the prestigious American Museum of Natural History in New York commissioned the artist to create twenty paintings of Southwest Indian life and customs, a project he worked upon until his death two years later.
	Because of his short life, the art of Louis Akin is very scarce. It is estimated that he painted only about 125 oils, of which about one fourth are scenes depicting the Grand Canyon and its environs. His original watercolours and drawings probably do not exist in much greater numbers. Today his paintings and watercolours are much valued not only for their historic importance dealing with the American West but for the artist's masterful renditions of colour, perspective and tonal harmonies. Woodland Shore is thus a most important work of American Western art.
Size:	10 X 11 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Drawn upon hand-made, laid watercolour paper and backed upon board as was customary for watercolors from this period. Containing several very slight marginal tears and some matte burning along the outer margins. Else in excellent condition throughout. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower left corner. Woodland Shore is both a beautiful and scarce example of the famous art of Louis B. Akin 'Louis Akin'.
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