Background
Stuart, James Everett was born on March 24, 1852 in Maine, United States. Son of Daniel Soloman and Lydia H. (Philpot) Stuart.
Stuart, James Everett was born on March 24, 1852 in Maine, United States. Son of Daniel Soloman and Lydia H. (Philpot) Stuart.
Educational public schools. Art studies San Francisco School of Design. Unmarried. Discovered a process of painting upon aluminum by which pigments could be made to attach themselves to arid practically become a portion of the metal painted, which time does not deface.
Began making sketches along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers in California, in 1861, before levees were built and scenery was most beautiful. Spent summers of 1891 and 1907 in Alaska making sketches. Developed sketches into pictures, showing the natural beauty of parts of California in the earlier periods.
Made many sketches of Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe, the Yosemite, the high Sierras, valleys and meadows near to and including the coast, also of missions and adobe shacks in California and Mexico.
Painted scenes along the streams that flow into Half Moon Bay 25 miles south of the Golden Gate, and many landscapes, ranging from Alaska to the Panama Canal and from Maine to California Sold five paintings for $15,000 each (fine finish on aluminum) four of them being “Sunset Glows” on snow peaks and the fifth entitled “Raspberries.” Represented in headquarters of Society of Liberal Arts Joslyn Memorial, Omaha, Nebraska. Kalamazoo Art Association.
Oakdale (California) Public Library. Exposition Park Museum, Los Angeles, and Doheny Library, University of Southern California.
Golden Gate Park Museum, San Francisco.
State Library, Sacramento, California. East. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Municipal Art Commission, Los Angeles, California.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Southwest Museum, Highland Park, Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, California. And in many private collections in the United States and Europe.