Joseph Raphael
Joseph Raphael was born in Jackson, California. He studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco and the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian in Paris. He stayed in Europe for nearly four decades, maintaining ties to the San Francisco art community. He and his wife settled in the countryside in Uccle, Belgium, where they raised five children. With the approach of World War II, Raphael moved back to San Francisco, where he maintained a studio on Sutter Street for the rest of his life.
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This landscape was painted in Noordwijk, on the Dutch coast—one of Raphael’s favorite painting locales. This sunlit landscape, with its visible brushstrokes and free use of color, suggests the influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, styles that Raphael encountered during his decades living in Europe. Spring Winds was one of six paintings he exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, for which he was awarded a silver medal.
Museum purchase, Skae Fund Legacy