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Theodore Wores

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Artist's Biography

Theodore Wores was an important American artist, whose long career produced outstanding works depicting varied and unusual subjects. A San Francisco native, Wores received professional training in Munich, becoming one of the "Duveneck boys." Exposed to Whistler's fondness for Japanese aesthetics, Wores went to Japan for two extended visits and held successful exhibitions of his Japanese paintings in New York and London where he became friends with Whistler and Oscar Wilde. When Wores returned to make San Francisco his permanent home around 1906, he had developed into a sophisticated artist who had absorbed the influence of French Impressionism while retaining the strict technical abilities of his academic training. In 1926 he remodeled an old Methodist Church near Saratoga into a week-end retreat, while maintaining a studio at 1001 California Street, San Francisco. From this point on, he often painted subjects on the Peninsula south of San Francisco, showing flowering fruit trees during the rainy season. Wores became entranced by these springtime vistas, declaring that blossoming orchards in the Santa Clara Valley were more beautiful than the cherry blossoms he had painted in Japan.