"Temple Bell, Japan" by early California artist Theodore Wores (1859 - 1939), original watercolor painting. Unframed height 13 inches, unframed width 9 1/2 inches. Dark Brown wood frame. Signed by the artist, lower right. Theodore Wores was a native San Franciscan and one of the most influential of that city’s early artists. Wores was one of the first students enrolled at the San Francisco School of Design when it opened in 1874. He also made his way to Europe where he studied at Munich’s Royal Academy. Wores was an eager traveler and made painting expeditions to Japan, Hawaii, Spain, Samoa, Canada and Taos, New Mexico. In 1907 he was appointed Dean of the newly re-opened San Francisco Art Institute, a post he held for 6 years. This painting depicts the City of San Francisco, as it was rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake. Wores is best known for his detailed paintings of Japanese water gardens and for looser more Impressionistic flowering orchard paintings done near Saratoga, California.

Good condition.