The Harp of the Winds

 

Pedro Joseph de Lemos

  1882 - 1954 (biography)

c. 1925  

color block print 

8 7/8 x 10 5/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

titled in pencil, lower left; artist's chop in lower right 

 

fine ivory laid paper 

published 

artist 

CAAL126 

SOLD

This Northern California color woodblock print was done by Pedro DeLemos around 1925. Pedro J. de Lemos is known as a painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, and museum director but he was also an influential theorist and educator. He was born in Austin, Nevada on May 25, 1882, however Lemos grew up in Oakland, California and began his art studies in the Bay Area. In 1900 he was a pupil of Arthur Matthews at the Mark Hopkins Institute and continued his studies as a student of George Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York and Arthur Wesley Dow at Columbia University Teachers College. Returning to Oakland, he set up his studio overlooking Lake Merritt and began teaching at U.C. Berkeley. He also worked as an illustrator and designer and began teaching classes in decorative design and etching at the San Francisco Institute of Art, formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute, in 1911. He was a founding member of the California Society of Etchers, and one of his prints won honorable mention at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 for which he was chief organizer of the California print exhibition. He was Professor of Design at Stanford University and was appointed director of the Stanford Museum of Art in 1919. Lemos was editor of School Arts Magazine and produced a series of folios based on his theories of design entitled Applied Art as well as authoring about fifty books on arts and crafts. Lemos was the first president of the Carmel Art Association and his work was exhibited with the California Society of Etchers, the Californa Print Makers, the Palo Alto and Carmel Art Associations, the Chicago Society of Etchers, as well as at the Bohemian Club. His influence was widespead and his achievements were many. He honored in 1943 by his induction as fellow of the Royal Society of Art in London.