Painting titled "Placerville, 1850" by Jan Wall, Original Artwork, Oil Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

Placerville, 1850 (2022) Painting by Jan Wall

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil / Ink / Pencil on Canvas

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One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 16in, Width 20in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $5,000 History

This mixed media painting shows Main Street of Placerville, California, in 1850. I saw the reference photo in the waiting room at my dentist’s office, and was so taken with it that I asked his permission to paint it.The top half of the painting, the sky, hill, and forest in the distance are all oil. The details in the foreground are mostly pencil, pen, and ink. I felt that the oil painting was more permanent, more powerful, while the men and the buildings look fragile and temporary.

The group of men on the right are distributing white flags marking property boundaries in the city. At the top of the hill is some sort of water delivery system. It looks too small to be a flume; perhaps it is a stone trough. It must be the source of Hangtown Creek, which still runs downhill to Main Street.

I couldn’t see from the photo what flag was flying from the flagpole on the right, so I made it the California Bear Flag. The reference photo is in the Larsen Museum. No wagon ruts mar the street, but there are two horses, one on the near left and another in the distance.

The central image extends to the edges, but it could have a simple dark wooden frame, about two inches wide.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Jan Wall

United States

In my work, I'm looking for that place where work and play are one, where spirit and matter meet. I have taught at Texas Tech, Amarillo College, Laney College in downtown Oakland, California,[...]