Edgar Alwin Payne · 1883–1947
Edgar Alwin Payne: life, paintings and market
Edgar Payne taught himself to paint, helped found the Laguna Beach Art Association, and spent three decades painting the High Sierra, the Navajo country around Canyon de Chelly, the California coast and the harbors of Brittany and Chioggia. This site gathers what is documented about his life and work, with sources, for owners, researchers and collectors.
Guides
- BiographyFrom the Ozarks to Laguna Beach, Europe and Hollywood
- TimelineYear-by-year chronology, 1883–1947 and after
- Subjects & paintingsSierra, Southwest, coast and European harbors
- Sierra Nevada paintingsPayne's defining subject, and Payne Lake
- Laguna BeachThe art association he led in 1918
- Canyon de Chelly & the SouthwestThe 1917 Santa Fe commission and the Navajo riders
- Signature & authenticationHow catalogues describe his signature, labels and inscriptions
- Auction records & marketPublic results with sources
- Museums & exhibitionsWhere to see his work, and the 2012 retrospective
Born
March 1, 1883, Barry County, Missouri. Some sources give 1882. Why the dates differ
Laguna Beach
Formed the Laguna Beach Art Association with Anna Hills and others in 1918 and became its first president.
Author
Composition of Outdoor Painting (1941), still in print and used by landscape painters.
About this site
edgaralwinpayne.com is published by Steven Stern Fine Arts, a Los Angeles gallery that has worked with Edgar Payne's paintings for 31 years. Paintings shown here are works the gallery has already sold, used as illustrations only. Nothing on this site is for sale and no prices for the gallery's own sales are published.
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