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Chris Jorgensen (October 7, 1860- June 24, 1935) was a Norwegian-born American landscape painter. Jorgensen is best known for his paintings of Yosemite Valley and the California Missions. ==Early life and influences== Chris Jorgensen was born in Oslo Norway in 1860, to parents Ole and Sophie Jorgensen. Ole Jorgensen died of tuberculosis in 1864, leaving his wife to care for Chris and his four older siblings.〔Chris Jorgensen, Yosemite Artist. San Francisco: The Yosemite Fund, 2004.〕 In 1870 Sophie immigrated to the United States to reunite with her brother in San Francisco, California. Jorgensen met his future mentor Virgil Williams shortly before the San Francisco School of Design opened in February 1874. Williams, the director of this academy, spotted the young fourteen-year-old Jorgensen sketching near his residence in the city and invited him to be the first free student.〔Littell, Katherine. Chris Jorgensen: Californian Pioneer Artist. Sonora: Fine Arts Research Publishing Co, 1988.〕 Williams' influence over Jorgensen’s budding artistic style was great. As Williams had been exposed to French and Italian methods of painting in his travels abroad, he emphasized the importance of regular exhibition to the young Jorgensen. Jorgensen’s lifelong tendency towards classical compositions arose from Williams’ mentorship. Another influential mentor of Jorgensen’s was Thomas Hill, a highly successful California artist during the late 19th century. From Hill, Jorgensen developed a more impressionistic technique and learned to intensify the colors in his works by coating them in a heavy glaze.〔 At the end of his course at the School of Design in 1881, Williams appointed Jorgensen an instructor and the Assistant Director of the School.〔 It was in this period that Jorgensen had the good fortune to fall in love with and marry one of his art students in 1888, Angela Ghirardelli, heiress to the Ghirardelli fortune. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Jorgensen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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