The Man Beneath the Paint: California Impressionist Tilden Daken

This is the first fully illustrated biography of artist Tilden Daken (1876-1935). His incomparable life and substantial oeuvre have been brought to the fore by granddaughter Bonnie Portnoy. Though she never knew him, she has unearthed a treasure trove of material — his art, stories of his expeditions, his friendships with noted personalities of the era, and his coast-to-coast exhibitions. Famous in his day, he was one of the most prolific and adventurous painters in the American West. He painted in every California state park and national park in the West—from the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the California redwoods, to seascapes and countryside scenes, and beneath the Pacific Ocean in a custom-built diving bell. A portrait of perpetual motion, he ventured on art expeditions to Hawaii, the South Seas, Mexico, and Baja California. A pal of writer Jack London, the two first met in the Reno railyard in 1901, and resumed their friendship in 1906 in Glen Ellen in Sonoma County where Daken mo