Antique 1905 VERY RARE Railways Travel GuideSUBURBAN TRIPSLos Angeles

Posted on May 14, 2024 by admin

This was before there many roads and when Los Angeles was a much smaller town. People would like to get away for awhile; the rail system provided such relief and this guidebook gives 8 different trips one could take. Included are lots of text descriptions, photos, drawings and wonderful ads. Sadly, someone must have liked a few of the photos too much and decided to ad them to their scrap book (one photo shows that each were at least neatly sniped). A must have for collectors of early turn of the century transportation, Los Angeles County or travel ephemera in general. Antique 1905 VERY RARE Railways Travel Guide”SUBURBAN TRIPS”Los Angeles.

Fine Antique California Impressionist Nautical Boats Oil Painting, HYDE 1930s

Posted on May 12, 2024 by admin

This is a lovely and Fine Antique California Impressionist Nautical Boats Oil Painting on canvas, by the talented early 20th century California Impressionist painter, Josephine E. Herron Hyde 1885 – 1965. This artwork depicts a vibrant and jewel-toned harbor scene on Terminal Island, in Long Beach, California. Small white boats are shown idling in the calm turquoise hued waters, while the scaffolding of a wooden dock can be seen in the background. This piece likely dates to the 1930’s – 1940’s. HYDE” in small print in the lower left corner and also signed: “Josephine Hyde in the lower right corner. Additionally, an old, yellowed exhibition label on the verso reads: Mrs. Fishing Boats (Terminal Island)… This small gem is approximately 10 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches including frame. Actual artwork is approximately 15 x 18 inches. Very good condition for age, with some light chipping, wood splitting, and scuffing to the vintage frame please see photos. Acquired from an old collection in Los Angeles, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! 1885 – Columbus, Ohio. 1965 – Los Angeles, California. Known for : Painting, crafts, teaching. Herron Hyde (1885 – 1965) was active/lived in California, Ohio. Josephine Hyde is known for Painting, crafts, teaching. Herron Hyde ws born in Columbus, OH on Aug. Hyde studied at Stanford University, and with Nell Walker Warner, Edward Withers, and Will Foster. She was an art teacher in Los Angeles and Long Beach high schools from 1923 until her death in the latter on April 1, 1965. She was the wife of artist Otis Hyde. Art Club; Women Painters of the West; Long Beach AA; Painters of the SW; La Jolla AA. Exh: Pacific-SW Expo (prize); Greek Theater (LA); Ebell Club (LA); LACMA; Pomona Fair; Bowers Museum (Santa Ana). Edan Hughes, author of the book. Who’s Who in American Art 1953-62.

Antique California Fruit Growers Crate End

Posted on May 1, 2024 by admin

Features stamped text on a wooden plank, in fairly good condition. 24″ W x 5″ H Please refer to photos regarding condition. However, we are not responsible for any damages, loss, or deductibles. In these cases, we will insure them to the full extent available, but will not be responsible for additional damages above the available insured amount. OTHER? Our items may contain rust, dust, grease, or grit. All of our pieces are reclaimed from industrial environments where they may have been exposed to years of use and weathering. As such, each piece has character. Industrial Artifacts cannot be held responsible for matters of taste regarding the character of a piece. Bulbs for light fixtures are not included unless specified.

RARE Antique American WPA Social Realism Print, Chinatown 1932 L’Allemand

Posted on April 13, 2024 by admin

This is a historically significant and Very RARE Antique American WPA Social Realism Woodcut Print on Rice Paper, by early Los Angeles, California journalist, photographer, writer, illustrator, and artist, Gordon Lynn L’Allemand “Allemand” 1903 – 1974. There are limited sources of information on this artist, but perhaps you know more about him or his work? This piece depicts the shadowy silhouette of a Chinese man with a flatcap, smoking a cigarette in an open doorway. Across the alley, several shady characters, and a small child stand in the entryway of a Los Angeles Chinatown Tong clubhouse. In American Chinatowns, Tongs were essentially secret societies or brotherhoods created by Chinese immigrants, which promoted and maintained order and settled community disputes among the minority Chinese population. During the 1930’s, they were often associated with crime, such as prostitution, bootlegging, and operating opium dens. This piece is titled in graphite: “Tong Lookout Chinatown, ” at the lower left edge, and signed: “Gordon L’Allemand” in graphite at the lower right edge. Additionally, there is an annotation in graphite underneath the signature which reads: To Warren from Gordon, Best Wishes. Approximately 13 x 17 inches including frame. Actual artwork is approximately 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches. Very good condition for nearly a century of age, and the fragile nature of the rice paper, with expected age-related toning, mild creasing at the edges, and some light discoloration please see photos carefully. Acquired from an old collection in Los Angeles, California. This is the first original artwork by L’Allemand to ever be offered for sale since the invention of the Internet. This early artistic representation of the Los Angeles historic Chinatown is Priced to Sell. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! Gordon Lynn L’Allemand. 1903 – Bowling Green, Kentucky. 1974 – San Luis Obispo, California. Born in Bowling Green, KY on April 2, 1903. By the 1920s L’Allemand had settled in Los Angeles and was a pupil of J. He wrote articles for the Times and was the author-illustrator of several books including You Can Grow Dwarf Trees and Pageantry On The Mesa. His subjects include still lifes, figure studies, scenes of Los Angeles, and portraits. He died in San Luis Obispo, CA on Oct. Exh: Laguna Beach AA, 1930; LACMA, 1930 (solo), 1931 (prize); Calif. Art Club, 1930-31; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1931-37; Bullocks (LA), 1932; Calif. State Fair, 1937; All Calif. Source: Nancy Dustin Moure, Publications in California Art No. Like other major Chinatowns across the country, Old Chinatown had long been represented as a world of underground passages and secret rooms. A 1930 Los Angeles Times article described the community in this way, Tong wars, murders, dope raids, hop-house scandals, white and yellow slavery, underground tunnels, secret trap doors; all have been here. Outside in the streets old men bask lazily in the sunshine and life is peaceful to the eye, but behind barred doors one feels that mystery is eternally seething. 71 In popular articles like these, Old Chinatown was depicted as being not just unseen but unseeable to the eyes of the city’s white population. The stories of underground tunnels reflected broader fears that many whites held of Chinatown and Chinese people somehow being invisible to police and government power. In this way, Old Chinatown was represented as existing outside the legal and juridical boundaries that defined so much of the rest of the city. Indeed one might argue that the idea of being seen or seeable to the broader white population correlated directly with popular perceptions of the perceived governability of the residents of the community. The notion that Chinatown was ridden with tunnels and secret passages reflected dominant fears that the neighborhood’s residents not only could not be seen by the state, the police, or by the white power structure but also that they could not be governed in the same way. Gordon L’Allemand, ” Old Chinatown, ” Los Angeles Times, October 5, 1930, K8.

1855 US Coast Survey & Bache Antique Map Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, California

Posted on April 13, 2024 by admin

US Coast Survey A D Bache Super. Prelimanary Survey of San Pedro Anchorage and Vicinty of Santa Barbara California…. Coast Survey (Office of Coast Survey). 16 1/2in x 10n (405mm x 255mm). (A+) Fine Condition. This rare, original antique lithograph early maps of Santa Barbara and San Pedro (Los Angeles), California, by Alexander Dallas Bache (great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin) in 1856 – dated – was published by the official chart-maker of the United States, the office of The US Coast Survey. The Office of the Coast Survey, founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin, is the oldest scientific organization in the U. Jefferson created the Survey of the Coast, as it was then called, in response to a need for accurate navigational charts of the new nation\’s coasts and harbors. Paper thickness and quality: – Heavy and stable Paper color : – off white Age of map color: – Colors used: – General color appearance: – Paper size: – 16 1/2in x 10n (405mm x 255mm) Plate size: – 16 1/2in x 10n (405mm x 255mm) Margins: – Min 1/2in (12mm). Margins: – None Plate area: – Folds as issued Verso: – Some folds re-enforced with archival tape. Background: An uncommon example of the 1855 U. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of Santa Barbara and San Pedro (Los Angeles), California. Essentially two maps on a single sheet, the left hand map details the stretch of land that would evolve into the city of Santa Barbara. When the Coast Survey issued this map Santa Barbara was, for all intent and purposes, uninhabited. The right hand map focuses on Point Fermin and the San Pedro Anchorage. When this map was issued the mission and landing at San Pedro had been established, as had the Los Angeles Mission further north. Today the modern city of Los Angeles incorporates this entire area. As a nautical map it further includes countless depth soundings (in feet) and a wealth of practical information for the mariner. The triangulation for this map was completed by G. The topography is the word of A. The hydrography was accomplished by a team under the command of J. The whole was compiled under the direction of A. Bache, one of the U. Coast Survey\’s most influential and prolific superintendents, for issue in the 1855 annual report to Congress. Coast Survey (Office of Coast Survey) The Office of Coast Survey is the official chart-maker of the United States. Set up in 1807, it is one of the U. Governments oldest scientific organizations. In 1878 it was given the name of Coast and Geodetic Survey (C&GS). In 1970 it became part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency was established in 1807 when President Thomas Jefferson signed the document entitled An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States. While the bills objective was specific-to produce nautical charts-it reflected larger issues of concern to the new nation: national boundaries, commerce, and defence. The early years were difficult. Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, who was eventually to become the agencys first superintendent, went to England to collect scientific instruments but was unable to return through the duration of the War of 1812. After his return, he worked on a survey of the New York Harbor in 1817, but Congress stepped in to suspend the work because of tensions between civilian and military control of the agency. After several years under the control of the U. Army, the Survey of the Coast was reestablished in 1832, and President Andrew Jackson appointed Hassler as superintendent. In general, army officers worked on topographic surveys on the land and maps based on the surveys, while navy officers worked on hydrographic surveys in coastal waters. Alexander Dallas Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was the second Coast Survey superintendent. Bache was a physicist, scientist, and surveyor who established the first magnetic observatory and served as the first president of the National Academy of Sciences. Under Bache, Coast Survey quickly applied its resources to the Union cause during the Civil War. In addition to setting up additional lithographic presses to produce the thousands of charts required by the Navy and other vessels, Bache made a critical decision to send Coast Survey parties to work with blockading squadrons and armies in the field, producing hundreds of maps and charts. Bache detailed these activities in his annual reports to Congress. Coast Survey cartographer Edwin Hergesheimer created the map showing the density of the slave population in the Southern states. Bache was also one of four members of the governments Blockade Strategy Board, planning strategy to essentially strangle the South, economically and militarily. On April 16, 1861, President Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the blockade of ports from South Carolina to Texas. Baches Notes on the Coast provided valuable information for Union naval forces. Maps were of paramount importance in wartime: It is certain that accurate maps must form the basis of well-conducted military operations, and that the best time to procure them is not when an attack is impending, or when the army waits, but when there is no hindrance to, or pressure upon, the surveyors. That no coast can be effectively attacked, defended, or blockaded without accurate maps and charts, has been fully proved by the events of the last two years, if, indeed, such a proposition required practical proof. ? Alexander Dallas Bache, 1862 report. Coast Survey attracted some of the best and brightest scientists and naturalists. It commissioned the naturalist Louis Agassiz to conduct the first scientific study of the Florida reef system. James McNeill Whistler, who went on to paint the iconic Whistlers Mother, was a Coast Survey engraver. The naturalist John Muir was a guide and artist on Survey of the 39th Parallel across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah. The agencys men and women (women professionals were hired as early as 1845) led scientific and engineering activities through the decades. In 1926, they started production of aeronautical charts. During the height of the Great Depression, Coast and Geodetic Survey organized surveying parties and field offices that employed over 10,000 people, including many out-of-work engineers. In World War II, C&GS sent over 1,000 civilian members and more than half of its commissioned officers to serve as hydrographers, artillery surveyors, cartographers, army engineers, intelligence officers, and geophysicists in all theaters of the war. Civilians on the home front produced over 100 million maps and charts for the Allied Forces. Eleven members of the C&GS gave their lives during the war. Alexander Dallas Bache 1806 – 1867 was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mid-eastern United States coastline. Originally an army engineer, he later became Superintendent of the U. Coast Survey, and built it into the foremost scientific institution in the country before the Civil War. Alexander Bache was born in Philadelphia, the son of Richard Bache, Jr. And Sophia Burrell Dallas Bache. He came from a prominent family as he was the nephew of Vice-President George M. Dallas and naval hero Alexander J. He was the grandson of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Dallas and was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was a professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1843. Abroad, he examined European education systems, and on his return he published a valuable report. From 1839 to 1842, he served as the first president of Central High School of Philadelphia, one of the oldest public high schools in the United States. In 1843, on the death of Professor Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, Bache was appointed superintendent of the United States Coast Survey. He convinced the United States Congress of the value of this work and, by means of the liberal aid it granted, he completed the mapping of the whole coast by a skillful division of labor and the erection of numerous observing stations. In addition, magnetic and meteorological data were collected. Bache served as head of the Coast Survey for 24 years (until his death). Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request. What is an Antique Map. The word Antique in the traditional sense refers to an item that is more than a hundred years old. The majority of antique maps for sale today come from books or atlases and have survived due to the protection offered by the hardback covers. The first thing to determine when staring a collection or purchasing an item, is what is important to you. Most collectors prefer to build their collections around a theme. You may decide to collect maps from one region or country, charting its development through time. Similarly you could collect maps of one particular period in time, by type i. Sea or celestial charts or by cartographer. The collector might also want to consider the theme of cartographical misconceptions such as California as an island or Australia as Terra Australis or the Great Southern Land. The subject is so wide that any would-be-collector has almost endless possibilities to find his own little niche within the field, and thereby build a rewarding collection. Starting a collection & pricing. Pricing is based on a number of different factors, the most important of which is regional. In any series of maps the most valuable are usually the World Map and the America/North America. The World because it is usually the most decorative and America because it has the strongest regional market. Other factors that come into play re: price is rarity, age, size, historical importance, decorative value (colour) and overall condition and quality of paper it is printed on. As specialised dealers, we frequently work with first time map buyers who are just starting their collection. Classical Images was founded 1998 and has built an excellent reputation for supplying high quality original antiquarian maps, historical atlases, antique books and prints. We carry an extensive inventory of antiquarian collectibles from the 15th to 19th century. Our collection typically includes rare books and decorative antique maps and prints by renowned cartographers, authors and engravers. Specific items not listed may be sourced on request. Classical Images adheres to the Codes of Ethics outlined by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). We are a primarily an online based enterprise, however our inventory may be viewed by appointment. Track Page Views With. 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Antique 1905 VERY RARE Railways Travel GuideSUBURBAN TRIPSLos Angeles

Posted on February 4, 2024 by admin

Antique Old California Plein Air Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting, Teagle

Posted on February 3, 2024 by admin

This is a beautiful and dream-like Early Antique Old California Plein Air Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on artists board, signed: Daisy Teagle? This work approximately dates to the 1920’s – 1930’s. I could not find any information on an artist with this name, but perhaps you can decipher the signature or recognize the artist? This work depicts three trees, with softly painted orange Autumn leaves. In the background, a mountain vista and small rural home can be seen. A label affixed to the back of the frame reads: M. Artists Materials 2414 West 7th St. Los Angeles FEderal 3802. Based on this label, this Plein air scene is likely from the Los Angeles County area. This painting is in good condition, with some minor areas of paint loss. Gilded frame has a few scuffs and light edge wear please see photos. Approximately 16 x 19 7/8 inches including frame. Actual artwork is approximately 12 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!

RARE Antique Early California Impressionist Landscape Etching, Orpha Klinker

Posted on February 3, 2024 by admin

This is a finely detailed and RARE Antique Early California Impressionist Landscape Aquatint Etching on paper, by renowned California Impressionist painter and printmaker, Orpha Mae Klinker 1891 – 1964. This work is titled: “Trees and Tide” in graphite in the lower left corner, and depicts a serene seaside scene, with calm and rollicking sea in the distance, tall trees, and delicately rendered foliage. This piece is signed and annotated in graphite at the lower center edge: “75/150 An Aquatint, ” and signed: by Orpha Klinker at the lower right edge. This artwork likely dates to the late 1920’s – 1930’s. Approximately 15 x 20 inches including frame. Actual visible artwork is approximately 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Very good condition for age, with some moderate scuffing and paint loss the original period frame, and several spots of light water staining to the corners of the matting please see photos. Acquired from an old estate collection in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! 1891 – Fairfield, Iowa. 1964 – Hollywood Hills, California. Adobe landmarks, desert scenes, portrait painting, illustration. Orpha Klinker Carpenter, Orpha Ooley. Landscape paintings and etchings as well as her portraiture and early California historic sites. She was also an active illustrator and graphic designer. Klinker was recognized for her series of historical and pioneer paintings. She painted a series of portraits of notable Californians and memorialized many historic early California structures on canvas. On October 14, 1963, she was awarded a resolution by the. City Council of Los Angeles. Recognizing her outstanding professional skill and appreciation for the many honors she has brought to the city. Orpha Klinker was born in. On November 20, 1891. The firstborn of five children of. And Lydia Jane Raver. Her given name is a modification of the Biblical name. The family moved to California when she was a child, first to. Chico, and eventually to. Klinker attended school in Los Angeles at. Polytechnic High School, and later studied under noted California. She traveled to Europe with fellow artist Crystal Wood Stephen to do further art studies at the. Académie Colarossi, both in Paris, France. Klinker did commercial illustration work in fashion and furniture design during the 1920s in both Los Angeles and New York. She also created book illustrations and contributed to magazines. Starting in the 1930s, she created more than 100 illustrated historical plate designs for. Company in California, a forerunner in the commemorative plate business. These plates, showing historical features of places throughout the United States, are collectibles. While living in New York City, Klinker created a series of. With children’s characters in the. Style featuring fashionable clothing of the 1920s. The series, The Betty Bobbs Family, featuring Betty Bobbs, Bonnie Bobbs, Bobby Bobbs and Baby Bobbs, was published in. Magazine in 1925, in the January, February, May and July issues. They remain sought-after as paper doll collectibles. Beginning in the 1920s, Klinker’s work focused on fashion illustration for retail stores, furniture firms, magazines and pattern companies. Examples of her fashion work appeared in spreads in the. Feature pages to introduce the new season trends. Using multiple figures in elaborate settings, she illustrated the finest in women’s 1920s to 1930s styles. Her signature appeared in these omnibus drawings. Beginning in 1930, Klinker and her brother Zeno Klinker collaborated to form the Klinker Kraft Kard Company. They created a new line of humorous greeting cards during the Depression, a style they called burlesque cards, that was illustrated by Orpha and written by Zeno. World War II, Klinker created pastel portraits for more than 1000 United States military personnel at various Veterans Hospitals. An exhibition of some of these portraits were widely shown, including a show at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. In the mid 1930s, some of her work was signed with her married name at the time, Orpha Klinker Carpenter. Klinker died in Los Angeles on May 23, 1964. Orpha Klinker’s natural talent for art even appeared in her kindergarten days. She graduated from Polytechnic High School, L. And later studied at U. Art School and at the Cannon Art School. Artists Paul Lauritz and Anna A. Hills of Laguna Beach, were her first art teachers. She continued her study of art at the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Europe. Some of her earliest work was in designing. Many pages of her fine pen work drawings appeared in Los Angeles newspapers, illustrating the fashions of the day, not only in clothes but in furniture and other things. Then for a time she did her work in New York City and later with the Ladies Home Journal in Philadelphia. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L. TIMES under the heading of Speaking Of Pioneers. This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings and trees of California. From the Mexican border to Death Valley she roamed, meeting and painting portraits of such characters as Death Valley Scotty, Shoshone Johnny, the ancient Indian who supposedly saw the first white man come to Death Valley, Emanuel A. Speegle, “The Last of the 49’ers” (over 90 years of age) and others. Orpha was active in keeping alive the memory of one historical event in particular, the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga ending the Mexican War with California in 1847. At the site of the signing in North Hollywood, there is now a large memorial building, The Campo de Cahuenga, containing Orpha’s paintings and oil portraits of the signers, Col. Fremont and Jose Antonio Carrillo. She was vice president of the Campo de Cahuenga Association and was one of the best qualified and most genuinely interested historical painters in California. She is also noted for her oil paintings and portraits. She painted John H. Francis, founder and first principal of Polytechnic High School, L. Miss Mary Foy, first teacher and librarian of Los Angeles High School, and Dr. Joseph Widney, first president of U. And founder of its Medical School. She painted many famous and socially prominent people including Mrs. Bell, founder with her husband of Bel Air, California; Madame Caroline Severance, founder of the first two Women’s Clubs in the United States (the Boston Woman’s Club and the Friday Morning Club in Los Angeles); the famous humorist Will Rogers; the early movie star, Miss Claire Windsor; comedian Edgar Bergen and his daughter Candice; and many others. Orpha was commissioned to paint a very large portrait of one of the earlier mayors of Los Angeles while he was in office, Mayor Frank E. This portrait still hangs in the Los Angeles City Hall. She also did outstanding work as an illustrator, illustrating such books as Artists of the Desert and the Enchanted Pueblo by Ed Ainsworth of the L. TIMES, and many other books. They are now collectors’ items as her beautiful oil paintings and etchings are fast becoming. Early in 1964 she had an exhibit at the Waldorf Astoria in New York and she was honored in 1963 by the Los Angeles City Council with an especially designed scroll and also again after her untimely death in 1964, at which time she was vice president of the California Art Club, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Fine Arts and was on the board of The Artists of the Southwest. She had also been president of The Women Painters of the West for three terms. In addition to her achievements in the United States, Orpha Klinker has been honored in France, Belgium, Mexico and India. Her paintings are in the collections of the late Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and her scenic and flower oil paintings grace the walls of lovely homes and art galleries all over the Western world. A painter of the California and Southwestern desert, Orpha Klinker had a long list of accomplishments as a Los Angeles artist, and was also a recognized portrait, historical and pioneer genre painter. She was of German and English heritage and was born in Fairfield, Iowa, and then lived briefly on a 360 acre farm near New Sharon. Growing up in that area, she loved the desert country and took an interest in the history and traditions of California. She had early art talent, which was encouraged by her mother. Orpha began her career cutting silhouettes for the May Company in Los Angeles when she was 12 years old, and then went into furniture ad art with her work appearing in many newspaper advertisements. She studied at the U. Art School and Cannon Art School and with Paul Lauritz and Anna Althea Hills, her first private teacher. She also became an art teacher, did silhouettes of movie stars, and created “Betty Bobbs” paper dolls. She attended the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Paris, went to New York and did illustration, and then to Philadelphia where she worked for the Ladies Home Journal. Returning to the West, she pursued through her art her combined interests in the desert and history. Her family became a part of this history, owning the Klinker Building, regarded as the first skyscraper Los Angeles. She did a series of portraits and talks titled “Speaking of Pioneers, ” and her research led her far afield into deserts of California, Utah, and Arizona where she painted the Grand Canyon. One of her portraits was of the last of the “49ers, ” Emanuel Speegle. She also did a series of historical scenes on china plates, now collectors’ items and in 1939 designed the official seal of Los Angeles county. She did etchings of the desert, her chief source of inspiration. She was a member of the California Art Club and the Women Painters of the West. Her studio was in her home atop the Hollywood Hills, and she worked for preservation causes including saving the stone home of Charles Lummis, noted writer and founder of the Southwest Museum. Source: Phil Kovinick and Marion Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Born in Fairfield, IA on Nov. 20, 1891, she and other members of the Klinker family moved to San Bernardino, CA when Orpha was a child. After graduating from Polytechnic High School, she studied art at UCLA, Cannon Art School, and continued in Paris at Académies Julian and Colarossi. After a year abroad, she worked in New York and Philadelphia before returning to California in 1925. She was married briefly to Wm Ooley (1921-23) and Cliff Carpenter (1932-36). Working in commercial art until middle age, she then stopped to concentrate on fine art. The subjects of her etchings and paintings include still lifes, portraits, California landmarks, and desert scenes. Honors awarded her are: Academician, American Int’l Academy, Washington, DC; Fellow, Andhra Research University of India (1940); Belgium’s Crois de Commandeur (1941). Member of Nat’l Academy of Mexico (1944); Gold Medal, University of Panama (1945); Member of Society of Fine Arts of Brazil (1948). She exhibited nationally, lectured on early California, and by 1959 had illustrated many books including Enchanted Pueblo. Klinker lived in Hollywood, CA until her death on May 23, 1964. Member: Society of American Graphic Artists; Calif. Society of Etchers; Laguna Beach Art Association; Los Angeles Art Association. California State Fair, 1930; Women Painters of the West, 1934-44; Friday Morning Club (LA), 1934; USC, 1935; Calif. Pacific Int’l Expo (San Diego), 1935; LA City Hall, 1935, 1938 (solos); Calif. Art Club, 1936; Ebell Salon (LA), 1937, 1955; Chamber of Commerce (Santa Paula), 1938; GGIE, 1939; Southwest Museum (LA), 1940 (solo); SWA, 1944; Artists of the Southwest (LA), 1948. In: City Hall (LA); Polytechnic High School (LA); MM. Who’s Who in California. Artists of the American West. Women Artists of the American West. (Nancy Moure); Los Angeles Times, 5-25-1964 (obituary).