American
Oriana Weatherbee Day was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1838. In 1877 she and her husband moved to Vallejo, California, and between 1877 and 1884 she traveled the length of El Camino Real, visiting all 21 of the then-disintegrating California missions. Day sought to paint every individual mission, though instead of documenting the buildings as the ruins she encountered, she rendered them at the height of their historical influence, showing daily life during California’s missionary past.
Born
1838
Died
1886