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Albert Pennoyer
(1888-1957)
Albert Sheldon Pennoyer was a painter and pastelist born in Oakland, California on April 5, 1888, the son of a prosperous dry goods merchant who founded a store called Taft and Pennoyer. The Pennoyer family moved to nearby Berkeley while Albert was a child. After one year at the University of California, he sailed to Paris to study architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts. He soon opted to become a painter instead and studied art at Academies Julian and Grand Chaumière under Ménard and Lucien Simon. At the outbreak of World War I he left Europe and returned to his home in Berkeley.
About 1919 he moved permanently to New York City but spent much time at his mother's home in Litchfield, Connecticut. Although he had a studio in New York during his last 38 years, he made many painting trips to California and had a studio shack on his brother's property at Lake Tahoe. He was the author of "This Was California" (1938) and "Locomotives in Our Lives" (1954).
Working in pastel, gouache and oil, he painted coastals, portraits, landscapes, railroad subjects, and scenes from his travels in Spain, Portugal, Central America, and the U.S. Pennoyer died in an auto accident in Madrid, Spain on August 17, 1957.
Member: American Federation of Artists; San Francisco Art Association; American Watercolor Society; Century Club; Allied Artists of America; National Arts Club; American Artists Professional League; Oakland Art Association.
Exhibited: Schussler Galleries, San Francisco, 1914; Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915; Calif. Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; Oakland Art Gallery, 1916; Doll & Richards Gallery, Boston, 1917 (1st solo); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1918, 1919 (solos); Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1926; San Francisco Art Association, 1919-30; Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, San Francisco, 1930; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1958 (memorial).
Works Held: Oakland Museum; California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan; Metropolitan Museum of Art; De Young Museum; Society of California Pioneers; Santa Barbara Museum; Smithsonian Institute; West Point Military Academy; California Historical Society.
Source:
Hughes, Edan M. Artists In California 1786-1940. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Sacramento: Crocker, Art Museum, 2002. N. pag. 2 vols. Print.
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