Elmer Hader’s Paintings
Elmer spent two and a half years, between 1912 and 1914, as a student at the Académie Julian, studying with François Flameng and Adolphe Déchenaud. While in Paris, he absorbed not only the lessons in painting and illustration taught in the ateliers of the Académie, but also the techniques of the great French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists of the era. In 1914, Hader’s large snow scene, Winter–Little Falls, N.Y., was accepted by a jury of preeminent French artists for inclusion in the Société des Artistes Français annual exhibition.
Returning to San Francisco in late 1914, Hader devoted himself to serious easel painting. He became an active participant in that city’s thriving art community. The most innovative and important paintings from Hader’s San Francisco period are the series of works in which he focused entirely upon views of Telegraph Hill and Fisherman’s Wharf. The exhibition of this series in 1917 [at the Palace of Fine Arts] was noteworthy for being the first show held in San Francisco devoted to works by one artist depicting a single theme and subject.
(by Lynn S. Beman)
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