biographie de Orrin PECK (1860-1921)

Birth place: Delaware County, NY

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: Pleasanton, CA

Profession: Landscape & portrait painter

Studied: Gijsis & Loefftz in Munich.

Exhibited: NAD, 1890, 1892; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (gold); Calif. Midwinter Int. Expo, 1894

Work: Bohemian Club; Univ. Calif.; Oakland Mus.

Comments: Traveled to California at age two via the Isthmus of Panama. Phoebe Hearst, a passenger aboard the ship, liked the child. Later when Peck became an artist, he painted several portraits of the Hearst family, and was in charge of the artistic work planned for W.R. Heart's ranch in northern Calif.

Sources: WW17; Hughes, Artists of California, 430.