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Carl Eytel (September 12, 1862 – September 17, 1925) was a
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artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in
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in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the
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, Eytel traveled with the author
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as he wrote the successful ''Wonders of the Colorado Desert'', and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as an ascetic and would die in poverty. Eytel's most important work, ''Desert Near Palm Springs'', hangs in the History Room of the
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.


Life


Early life and immigration

Carl Eytel was born as Karl Adolf Wilhelm Eytel in Maichingen,
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to Tusnelda (née Schmid) and Friederick Hermann Eytel, a Lutheran minister in the
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(now the state of
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, near
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), Germany.German Immigrants, 1880s: Carl Eytel from Wurtemberg to Kansas in 1885
arrived: April 11, 1885; occupation: hunter; destination: Kansas; native country: Wurtemberg; native city: Machingen; embarkation port: Hamburg; manifest number: 38415.
As a boy, he became a
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of his grandfather when his father died. 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
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, which he found in the Stuttgart Royal Library. (Available as
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From 1880 to 1884 he studied forestry in
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and then was drafted into the
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. He first traveled to the United States in 1885 aboard the '' Suevia'' and worked as a ranch hand in Kansas. Later he worked at a slaughterhouse for 18 months to earn his living and to study cattle. In 1891, he read an article about the Palm Springs area in the ''
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'' and was "incited" to visit the California desert.


Palm Springs

Eytel 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. Wanting to be a cowboy, he worked as a cowhand in the
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and in 1903 he would settle in Palm Springs. Living in small cabins he built himself, Palm Springs would remain his home. Eytel often walked on his travels, covering 400 miles in the Colorado Desert on foot. 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.


Work

While living for the most part as a "desert rat" and starving artist, he both traveled alone throughout the
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and accompanied author J. Smeaton Chase and painter
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on their travels. Serving as
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' guide to "every obvious and obscure location of importance", he
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James' two volume ''The Wonders of the
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''. The work was successful and received generally favorable reviews. Hudson's book was reviewed in: The collaboration on the book lasted from 1903 to 1907. Eytel's illustrations were also used by James in his 1906 article "The Colorado Desert: As General Kearney Saw It".


Successes

By 1908 Eytel was exhibiting works in
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and enjoying the patronage of socialite Martha M. Newkirk. He was also planning to build a bungalow in
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. And, in 1909, his work was being exhibited in major art venues and the Kanst gallery in Los Angeles. Later, in 1911, after traveling with Chase on horseback, he contributed 21 realistic
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drawings to Chase's book, ''Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains''. Besides his work in ''Wonders of the Colorado Desert'' and ''Cone-bearing Trees'', Eytel contributed (both drawings and articles) to the best periodicals, including the ''
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'' and, for nearly 14 years, the '' New Yorker Staats-Zeitung''. (During his travels in the southwest he became friends with ''Los Angeles Times'' city editor Charles Lummis.) A stone wall in the dining room of Dr. Welwood Murray's early hotel was covered with an Eytel mural of Palm Canyon. His hundreds of drawings of native palms were his trademark and he became known as "The Artist of the Palms". His work helped publicize early Palm Springs. In 1977 his works were selling for $10,000 and under.


"Creative Brotherhood"

Along with
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Edmund C. Jaeger Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc.,University of California, Riverside, Science Library (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunth ...
, and authors Chase and
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, Eytel was a core member of what
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Professor
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called a "Creative Brotherhood" that lived in Palm Springs in the early 20th century. Other Brotherhood members included cartoonist and painter Swinnerton, author James, and photographers Fred Payne Clatworthy and Stephen H. Willard.
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The men lived near each other (like Eytel, Jaeger built his own cabin), traveled together throughout the Southwest, helped with each other's works, and exchanged photographs which appeared in their various books. The Brotherhood lasted from 1915 when Jaeger, who was the teacher in the Palm Springs one-room school house, met Eytel and Chase. It ended in 1923 when Chase died.At the start of World War I Eytel took the conflict personally towards his old English friend Chase; but they may have reconciled when peace was achieved. (In 1924, after completing his studies at
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in Los Angeles, Jaeger began a 30-year teaching career at Riverside Junior College in
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.) Jaeger wrote the initial eulogy for Eytel upon his death and in 1948, recalling his time with him, Jaeger said: Over the years it was Eytel who served as their "spiritual figurehead". Even after Jaeger left to complete his studies and Chase married the wealthy Isabel White (1917), the three, plus Saunders, often exchanged letters. Suffering from a "hacking and persistent cough", Eytel remained in Palm Springs, impoverished, and Swinnerton would buy art supplies for him. Later Eytel became a recluse.


Smoketree School

Journalist Ann Japenga has characterized Eytel's work as "Smoketree School" – a school which is named after a favorite desert art subject, the smoketree. The school has origins with Alson S. Clark and Jack Frost, who were influenced by French
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. Other Smoketree artists include Carl Bray, Fred Chisnall,
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, Clyde Forsythe, Sam Hyde Harris, John Hilton, R. Brownell McGrew,
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, Hanson Puthuff and Swinnerton.


Style and subjects

Like many artists of the desert southwest, Eytel's style was impressionistic. His subjects were varied and included the
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, in the
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near
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(pre-restoration), and California
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and
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Spanish missions. His drawings for ''Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains'' and ''Wonders of the Colorado Desert'' were especially detailed and included
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, desert reptiles, and cattle. (His ''Mirage in the Desert'' (1905), painted for ''Wonders'', depicts cattle and cowboys.) Eytel depicted the life of
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,
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,
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, Serrano and Kamia peoples, including landscapes of the New Mexico
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in
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, Laguna, Tesuque and
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. The Walpi Pueblo on First Mesa,
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, Arizona, and Cocopah people near
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were drawn as well. Prospectors working the Anaconda (Dale District) and Manana (Colorado River) mines in Arizona and the famous Picacho gold mine were drawn, as were the Rancho Guajome Adobe near
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, the Sierra Bonita Ranch near
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, turn of the century
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, and the Yuma Territorial Prison,
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. His scenes from early Palm Springs included the stagecoach station and William Pester – "The Hermit of Palm Springs". Eytel's
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and mountain scenes in ''Wonders'' included: *
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* Algodones, including the Pilot Knob landmark, Imperial County, California *
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* San Jacinto National Forest, California *
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, within
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, Arizona * Mt. San Gorgonio, California * Mt. San Jacinto, California *
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, Colorado *
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near
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*
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and Cathedral Spires in
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, California * Tahquitz Peak, near Idyllwild, California * Twin Buttes,
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Honors

Eytel was a friend of the Cahuilla people and they allowed him to be buried in their cemetery in Palm Springs after he died of tuberculosis in a
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. His funeral and burial were arranged by Nellie Coffman, who had established the original Desert Inn in the Palm Springs village in 1909. Eytel received the following eulogy from Saunders writing in August 1926: His painting ''Desert near Palm Springs'' (1914) is displayed in the California History Room of the
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. The
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has a set of Eytel's sketches and displays various of his paintings. The desert shrub '' amphipappus fremontii'' was given the
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"eytelia" in his honor. The short "Via Eytel" in Palm Springs is named in his honor, as is the short "Eytel Road" in nearby
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See also

Art topics: * ''
En plein air ''En plein air'' (; French language, French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein ai ...
'' – painting in the open air, which Eytel usually did ** California Plein-Air Painting – early 20th century movement, a regional variation on
American Impressionism American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose ...
*** California Art Club – a Plein-Air arts organization founded in 1909, but Eytel was not a member *** California Plein-Air Revival – which began in the 1980s *
Tonalism Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when Visual art of the United States, American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as g ...
 – painting of landscapes with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist, although Eytel's work does not have dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue ** California Tonalism ** Tonal Impressionism Literature topics: *
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*
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Desert topics: *
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 – part of the " low desert" in which Eytel lived * Deserts of California *
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, which contain the Joshua Tree National Monument, are north of the Coachella Valley – some of Eytel's travels took him into this area below the California " high desert" (
Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert (; ; ) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Mohave people, it is located pr ...
) *
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 – Native Americans in the Southwestern pueblos * Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains – where Eytel painted many of his mountain scenes * Southwest Museum of the American Indian – founded by Eytel's friend Charles Fletcher Lummis in 1905


Notes and references


Further reading

*  – Pearl McCallum McManus was a major figure in the development of early Palm Springs. This book also contains some 26 of Eytel's pen and ink drawings. * * ** (Electronic copy) * * * Includes letters with State Librarian James Louis Gillis and Milton J. Ferguson. * * (listed in: ) * * *  – Jaeger credits Eytel for a drawing of Washington Palms in a rocky gorge (p. 82). He also relates a story told to him by Dr. J. H. Kocher when Eytel and Kocher were camping in the mountains at Keyes Ranch near the Colorado Desert – a
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had come into their tent while they were sleeping. Eytel's advice to Kocher was a whispered "Better keep still." (pp. 288–290). * * Also available at
Desert Magazine 1978 September , PDF , Mail , Nature
* * * * *


External links


USC Digital Library, Carl Eytel

Artnet.com: auction results on Carl Eytel
(Contains images of the paintings ''A Rio Grande Pueblo'' and ''Cattle Herding'')
Ask/Art. The Artist's Bluebook: Carl A. Eytel
(Contains biographical material and images of paintings)
Heritage Auctions: Carl Eytel
(Contains images of the paintings ''Palm Desert'' and ''California Palms'', sold at auction.)
Braun Research Library Collection: Carl Eytel (394 images)
Autry National Center The Autry Museum of the American West (Autry National Center) is a museum in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to exploring an inclusive history of the American West. Founded in 1988, the museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and pub ...
, which holds the original drawings by Eytel for ''The Wonders of the Colorado Desert'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eytel, Carl 20th-century American painters American male painters American illustrators American Impressionist painters American landscape painters Artists of the American West People from Sindelfingen Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States German illustrators German landscape painters Painters from California Artists from Palm Springs, California Painters from Stuttgart 1862 births 1925 deaths 20th-century American male artists State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni