Cows Grazing the Hills of Marin County California
by Peter Ogden
Title
Cows Grazing the Hills of Marin County California
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is a restored copy of Cows Grazing the Hills of Marin County California, 1902, oil on canvas, by American landscape painter Thaddeus Welch,1844-1919. This peaceful pastoral scene depicts several cows strolling down to drink from a water trough in the rolling hill pastures of Marin County, California not far from the San Francisco Bay.
Thaddeus Welch 1844-1919 was an American landscape painter. Born in Missouri and reared in Oregon, he was trained at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. His paintings of Marin County, California became popular among members of the Bohemian Club in the 1890s. He retired in Santa Barbara, California with his wife, Ludmilla, who was also a painter. In his obituary in The San Francisco Chronicle, he was called "one of the greatest interpretative painters of California.
Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 252,409. Its county seat is San Rafael. Marin County is included in the San Francisco Oakland Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.
As of 2010, Marin County had the fifth highest income per capita in the United States. The county is governed by the Marin County Board of Supervisors. The county is also well known for its natural environment.
San Quentin State Prison is located in the county, as is George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. Autodesk, the publisher of AutoCAD, is also located there, as well as numerous other high-tech companies. The Marin County Civic Center was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and draws thousands of visitors a year to guided tours of its arch and atrium design. In 1994, a new county jail facility was embedded into the hillside nearby. Marin County's natural sites include the Muir Woods redwood forest, the Marin Headlands, Stinson Beach, the Point Reyes National Seashore, and Mount Tamalpais.
The United States' oldest cross country running event, the Dipsea Race, takes place annually in Marin County, attracting thousands of athletes. Mountain biking was invented on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in Marin .
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January 11th, 2020
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