![]() ![]() īesides his work in Wonders of the Colorado Desert and Cone-bearing Trees, Eytel contributed (both drawings and articles) to the best periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times and, for nearly 14 years, the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. Later, in 1911, after traveling with Chase on horseback, he contributed 21 realistic line art drawings to Chase's book, Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains. And, in 1909, his work was being exhibited in major art venues and the Kanst gallery in Los Angeles. He was also planning to build a bungalow in Beaumont, California. Successes īy 1908 Eytel was exhibiting works in Pasadena and enjoying the patronage of socialite Martha M. Eytel's illustrations were also used by James in his 1906 article "The Colorado Desert: As General Kearney Saw It". The collaboration on the book lasted from 1903 to 1907. The work was successful and received generally favorable reviews. Serving as George Wharton James' guide to "every obvious and obscure location of importance", he illustrated James' two volume The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. Smeaton Chase and painter Jimmy Swinnerton on their travels. While living for the most part as a "desert rat" and starving artist, he both traveled alone throughout the American Southwest and accompanied author J. Smeaton Chase, Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains, 1911 Pinus lambertiana (sugar-pine) by Eytel, from J. : xl On one of his travels he was nearly lynched as a horse thief and in 1918, during a trip to northern Arizona, he was threatened with lynching as a German spy. Eytel often walked on his travels, covering 400 miles in the Colorado Desert on foot. 18 Living in small cabins he built himself, Palm Springs would remain his home. 18 : 2 Wanting to be a cowboy, he worked as a cowhand in the San Joaquin Valley and in 1903 he would settle in Palm Springs. ![]() Palm Springs Įytel returned to Germany to study art for 18 months (1897–1898) at the Royal Art School Stuttgart and then re-immigrated to the United States. : xxxviii In 1891, he read an article about the Palm Springs area in the San Francisco Call and was "incited" to visit the California desert. Later he worked at a slaughterhouse for 18 months to earn his living and to study cattle. : V.II, p.17 He first traveled to the United States in 1885 aboard the Suevia and worked as a ranch hand in Kansas. : 41, 47 : xxxvii From 1880 to 1884 he studied forestry in Tübingen and then was drafted into the German Army. Eytel was well educated in the German gymnasium and became enamored of the American West while reading the works of Prussian natural science writer and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, which he found in the Stuttgart Royal Library. : V.I, p.30 As a boy, he became a ward of his grandfather when his father died. Life Early life and immigration Ĭarl Eytel was born as Karl Adolf Wilhelm Eytel in Maichingen, Böblingen to Tusnelda (née Schmid) and Friederick Hermann Eytel, a Lutheran minister in the Kingdom of Württemberg (now the state of Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart), Germany. Eytel's most important work, Desert Near Palm Springs, hangs in the History Room of the California State Library. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as an ascetic and would die in poverty. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert, and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. ![]() Two male teenagers were on their phones and laughing, coughing, and saying “shut up” to other audience members.Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery, Palm Springs, Californiaģ3☄9′21″N 116☃2′02″W / 33.8224°N 116.5340°W / 33.8224 -116.5340 Coordinates: 33☄9′21″N 116☃2′02″W / 33.8224°N 116.5340°W / 33.8224 -116.5340ĭesert near Palm Springs (1914) now in the California State Library California History Room Ĭarl Eytel (Septem– September 17, 1925) was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. A full on verbal screaming match about someone stealing money happened at my Batman screening at 3PM today (happened at the 2 hour mark during the film) ![]()
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