Paul Frenzeny

Sketches from the Far West-Arkansas Pilgrims by Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier, 1874
Undated portrait of Jules Tavernier by Paul Frenzeny
Weighing the Cargoes in the Weigh Lock on the Lehigh Canal, Pennsylvania, Harper's Weekly, 1873

Paul Frenzeny (1840 – 1902) was an American artist and illustrator. He is known for his many illustrations made as he travelled across America for Harper's Weekly with the artist Jules Tavernier.

Life

Paul Frenzeny was born in France in 1840. He is said to have joined the French cavalry in Mexico. He and Jules Tavernier were commissioned by the American magazine Harper's Weekly to Travel from the East Coast to the West Coast to capture illustrations of the as yet undisturbed West, starting in 1873 and reaching San Francisco in time for the magazine to print his pictures of California from 1876 onwards.[1][2] For one issue in 1878, he drew Chinese field workers gathering in the grapes in the Napa Valley, using artistic licence to show them treading the grapes with their feet, a technique then used in France but not in California.[3] He became interested in the city's Chinatown and drew many illustrations of that quarter between 1874 and 1882. He worked for Leslie's Weekly from 1882 to 1887. He died in London in 1902.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Lot 4069 After Paul Frenzeny (French 1840-1902) Harper's Weekly Illustration: The Vintage in California, At Work at the Wine Presses, 1878". Bonhams. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Paul Frenzeny". AskArt. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Street, Richard Steven (2004). Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Stanford University Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-8047-3880-4.
  4. ↑ "Paul Frenzeny's Chinatown Sketches: An Artist's Fascination with San Francisco's Chinese Quarter, 1874-1882 by Claudine Chalmers". Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Paul Frenzeny (1840-1902)". ArtPrice. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

Further reading

  • Chalmers, Claudine; Shields, Scott A.; Harrison, Alfred C., Jr. (2014) Jules Tavernier, Artist & Adventurer Pomegranate Communications, Portland, Oregon.
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