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Tilden Daken (June 14, 1876 – April 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter known primarily for his oil paintings of the California redwoods, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the countryside scenery of Northern California and Southern California. He also painted in Alaska, Mexico, Baja, the Hawaiian Islands, the South Seas, and parts of the East Coast of the United States. Between 1900 and 1930, Daken was associated with the California Impressionism art movement in which artists painted out of doors en plein air in California. Daken was primarily influenced by the genres of Tonalism, the American Barbizon school, and Academic Art. Principally self-taught, he began his career painting frescos, murals, and stage curtains. Daken exhibited in the leading galleries of the day in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. His works are held by at least eight museums and he is mentioned in over a dozen books. Art historian Edan Milton Hughes estimated Tilden Daken painted more than 4000 works. Named Samuel Tilden Daken at birth, at about the age of forty he dropped his first name, changed the spelling of his surname to Dakin, and signed his works Tilden Dakin. His earlier signature styles: S.T. Daken and S. Tilden Daken. "Dakin . . . presents no apologies for painting nature as he sees it, and in consequence his canvasses glow with all the color of the California hills and valleys. His pictures have the mellowness of a [William] Keith, and the warmth of a [Thaddeus] Welch. He has the feeling for grandeur of the Sierras which gave to Tom Hill [Thomas Hill] his fame. Dakin is an artist who ventures far afield. . .. Perhaps [he] will not like to be called a poet — some painters don't. Yet because he is so different in most ways from the modernist craftsman, perhaps he will let it go by this once." California art critic Harry Noyes Pratt on Daken, Mill Valley Record, May 21, 1927 (en) |
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Tilden Daken (June 14, 1876 – April 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter known primarily for his oil paintings of the California redwoods, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the countryside scenery of Northern California and Southern California. He also painted in Alaska, Mexico, Baja, the Hawaiian Islands, the South Seas, and parts of the East Coast of the United States. California art critic Harry Noyes Pratt on Daken, Mill Valley Record, May 21, 1927 (en) |
