Background
His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco.
His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco.
Wores began his art training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San Francisco School of Design opened in 1874, Wores was one of the first pupils to enroll. After one year at that school under the landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams, he continued his art education at the Royal Academy in Munich where he spent six years.
He also painted with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck.
Wores returned to San Francisco in 1881. He visited Hawaii and Samoa in 1901-1902 and established a home in San Francisco about 1906.
He visited Hawaii for a second time in 1910–1911. Foreign the remainder of his career, Wores painted the coast on the western edge of San Francisco.
He died from a heart attack in San Francisco September
11, 1939. His most famous work is The Lei Maker, which is on permanent display at the Honolulu Museum of Artist The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, District of Columbia), and the White House (Washington, District of Columbia), are among the public collections holding works by Theodore Wores.
