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Leland Curtis
(b. 1897, Denver, CO - d. 1989, Carson City, NV)
MT. RITTER
c. 1935, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Jonathan Club collection
Gift of J. Edward Martin in memory of his father, Albert C. Martin
Leland Curtis’ love of hiking and camping in the wilderness no doubt brought him to his best-known subjects: California’s Sierra Nevada, Antarctica, and the Rockies. He made his first trip to the Sierras in 1919 and began his involvement with local Los Angeles art community in the 1920’s. In 1938 Curtis was the official artist of the U.S. expedition to Antarctica and painted there again for the U.S. Navy in 1957.