{"id":5722,"date":"2021-08-09T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:30:53","slug":"thunderbird-overlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/thunderbird-overlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Overlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From April 2020, for a year, I posted on Facebook a painting each day as a brief diversion from the lockdowns and other bad news this year. Neglecting my weblog, I\u2019ll post in the coming days some of my better posts. Some of these paintings are still available.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Thunderbird Overlook”, 12×16, oil on panel, plein air<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“When men stop boozing, womanizing and gambling, the bloom is off the rose.”<\/p>George Whittell Jr.<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My have times changed! A little backstory….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first art gallery that accepted my work after going full time as an artist was in Tahoe City. They have since closed down, but in the 2000’s sold a lot of my work. I used to visit Lake Tahoe every few months, do new paintings, and drop off both plein air and studio works. This is one of the plein air pieces I did on those trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting is an overlook of Thunderbird Lodge, which I have written about before in these posts. Built in 1939, it was designed to blend harmoniously with its surroundings. But, the guy who built it might have been more interesting. George Whittell Jr. was born in San Francisco in 1881, an heir to one of San Francisco’s wealthiest families. His father was the founder of PG&E, the Northern California utility corporation, and Jr eventually became one of California’s richest people then at age 49. He built the lodge in 1935 to escape California’s higher income taxes. Yes, even back then, people left California to escape taxes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot more to the story, and you can read more about it here…\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/…\/Thunderbird_Lodge_(Lake…<\/a>
From the Studio Karanten”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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