Channing Peake

Considered one of the finest California painters, the late Channing Peake lived and painted in the Santa Ynez Valley for decades.

channing peakeChanning Peake, 1910-1989, a well-known Santa Barbara County artist, lived for many years in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he raised Quarter Horses and created spectacular paintings and drawings of the world around him.
During his career Peake worked with Edward Borein, Diego Rivera and Rico Lebrun. He spent several years living and working in New York, San Francisco, France and Mexico, but most of his adult life he lived in Santa Barbara County. He is considered one of the finest California painters ever to chronicle the West.
Born in Marshall, Colorado, in 1910, Channing Peake moved with his family to California, settling in the San Fernando Valley. His artistic talent was evident from a young age and with the assistance of his high school art teacher, the photographer Barbara Morgan, Peake won a scholarship to the California School of Arts and Crafts in 1928.
Three years later Peake came to Santa Barbara to attend the Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts. During this time he also assisted Western artist Edward Borein on a painting for El Paseo, where Peake would later paint his own mural in the 1980s.
Captivated by the medium of the fresco mural, Peake next traveled to Mexico where he spent a year traveling and documenting many aspects of Mexican life. As an apprentice to Diego Rivera, he worked on the murals at the National Palace in Mexico City.
Returning to the U.S. Peake moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the Art Students League. Commissions for murals during this period included two major projects for the WPA.  Peake executed many other important murals, assisting Rico Lebrun on a mural for the Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Lewis Rubenstein on a mural in the Germanic Museum at Harvard University. In our area, Peake painted the Don Quixote mural for the Santa Barbara Public Library (1959), the Santa Barbara Biltmore mural (1978-79), and the Santa Barbara El Paseo mural (1984-85).
In the 1940s, Peake came back to Santa Barbara to paint and for the next two decades he maintained a studio on a working ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley. He later traveled and painted extensively in Europe, then returned once more to Santa Barbara, where he continued to play a vital role in shaping the cultural life of the city.
He was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and a gallery named in his honor is located in the lobby of the Santa Barbara County Administration Building.

38 Responses to Channing Peake

  1. Great blog here! Also your site loads up very fast! What web host
    are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to
    your host? I wish my website loaded up as fast as yours lol

    Here is my web page – vpn code 2024

  2. Hi there everyone, it’s my first go to see at this site, and article
    is genuinely fruitful in support of me, keep up posting
    such content.

    Review my site :: vpn 2024

  4. hi!,I love your writing very a lot! proportion we keep
    up a correspondence more about your post on AOL? I need an expert in this space to resolve
    my problem. May be that is you! Looking forward to look you.

    Also visit my web page … vpn special

  16. 815203 871724The particular New york Diet can be an highly affordable and versatile eating greater tool built for time expecting to loose fat along with naturally keep a healthful day-to-day life. la weight loss 325790

  19. 376524 598305Aw, it was an very very good post. In thought I would like to set up writing similar to this moreover – taking time and actual effort to create a really excellent article but exactly what do I say I procrastinate alot and also no means manage to go done. 95863

  23. I am not sure where you are getting your info,but great topic. I needs to spend some time learning muchmore or understanding more. Thanks for wonderful info I was looking for this infofor my mission.

  26. Another way to understand the situation is to compare each state’s vaccination rate with its recent daily infection rate. The infection rates in the least vaccinated states are about four times as high as in the most vaccinated states.카지노사이트

  28. whoah this blog is great i love reading your articles. Keep up the good work! You know, a lot of people are looking around for this information, you could help them greatly.

  33. Do youu have a spam issue on this site; I alswo amm a blogger, and I waas urious about yur situation;
    we havfe devbeloped some nnice procedues annd wee
    aare looking to ttrade strategies with others, plese shot mme an mail
    iff interested.

Leave a reply