The Bohemian World of Xavier Martinez

Artist: M. Gracia. Title/Description: Portrait of Xavier Martinez. Signature: Signed with initials in image, and inscribed: "Ami Amigo J. ...

Artist: Louis Kronberg (1872-1965). Title/Description: Portrait of Xavier Martinez. Signature: Signed verso. Date Created: 1898, Paris. Size: 11 1/4 x

Artist: Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: "Head" (Portrait of Elsie Whitaker Martinez). Signature: Unsigned; identif...

Artist: Ruth Gaines (20th Century). Title/Description: Portrait of Elsie Whitaker Martinez. Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: 1926. Size: 1

Artist: Josephine Wood Colby (1862-1930). Title/Description: Woman with Bowl of Fruit. Signature: Signed with monogram lower right. Date Created: c. L

Artist: Chiura Obata (1885-1975). Title/Description: Mountain landscape. Signature: Signed and stamped lower right. Date Created: 1947. Medium/...

Artist: Chiura Obata (1885-1975). Title/Description: A group of 7 works, including abstracts, a landscape, horses, and a portrait (possibly Elsie Whit

Artist: B. C. (or C. B. ?). Title/Description: A man seated by a window, in dark tones. Signature: Signed lower left and stamped/painted verso with ...

Artist: Albert Thomas DeRome (1885-1954). Title/Description: "Fish Ranch Hill, Mouth of Carmel R." Signature: Signed lower left; titl...

Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Standing male nude. Signature: Signed with initials lower right (alternate "JTM"); inscrib...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Standing female nude, hand on hip. Signature: Signed lower right; inscribed: "Pari...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Seated female nude. Signature: Signed lower left (alternate "Javier"); inscribed &...

Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Seated male nude. Signature: Signed with monogram lower left, and inscribed: "14 Ab 1898, des B...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Standing female nude. Signature: Signed with initials lower right (alternate "jm")...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Standing female nude, back view. Signature: Unsigned (or faded); inscribed: "Correccion...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Mexican mother and child. Signature: Signed with monogram lower right. Date Created: c. 1930s.

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Portrait of a man in a library, in dark tones. Signed: Signed with monogram lower left. Date C

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: "mi madre" (Rosalia LaBastida de Coney). Signature: Signed with monogram lowe...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Xavier Martinez and his foster mother, Rosalia LaBastida de Coney, at her ranch in...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Hillside landscape (likely East Bay hills). Signature: Signed with monogram lower right. Date

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: "Indian Mother". Signature: Signed with monogram lower right, and signed verso. Da...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Praying nun before a church door, under evening sky. Signature: Signed with monogram and inscr

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Portrait of man in white robe. Signature: Signed/inscribed "Paris" with monogram l...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: After Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), Portrait of the Infanta Marguerite in bust. Signatur...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Mother with child on her lap. Signature: Signed with monogram lower right. Date Created: c. 19

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Hillside landscape with bay beyond. Signed: Signed with monogram lower right. Date Created: c.

Artist: Leo Lentelli (1879-1961). Title/Description: "X. Martinez" (Portrait of artist Xavier Martinez). Signature: Signed, dated, and cop...

Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: "Micaela at the age of 2 years 6 months, a silverpoint by her father"; on verso a lady in ...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Bearded man/statue reclining. Signature: Signed lower left with monogram; inscribed: "C...

A grouping of 16 sketches from Xavier Martinez's time in Paris. Together with a collection of Paris advertisements, programs, and...

A group of 19 gesture sketches, one signed: Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Nude female gesture sketches (19), some likely rep

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: "C.B., Baudelaire" (Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867). Together with: a Grand Dame (l...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Four sketches/drawings, c. 1900s; ranging in size from 7 x 4in to 9in x 6in.  1.) Charcoal portrait sketch...

A group of twelve California coastal sketches. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Twelve sketches showing coastal views/subjects,

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943).  Group of three signed sketches, c. 1900s-1920s. Ranging in size from 4 3/4in x 3 1/2in to 9 3/4in x 9in. ...

Three (of four) works from the "Indian Madonna Series", exhibited at the Oakland Museum Xavier Martinez Retrospective in 1974. Artist...

A grouping of six drawings, two appearing to depict artist Maynard Dixon. Martinez shared a San Francisco studio with Dixon before the ear...

A travel journal together with a grouping of six drawings from Xavier Martinez's sketching trip to Arizona, June to August 1913; and three ...

Group of landscape and other sketches, together in a folder with Martinez's monogram/design. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Des...

A group of 18 gesture and other sketches: Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Nude female gesture sketches and several head/face s

A sketch for a mural with an associated photograph and news clipping, together with another sketch. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Descrip

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Mural sketch of Portola and Friar Miguel Costanso at the San Francisco Bay; and "F...

A group of 11 drawings exhibited at Hill Tolerton's Print Rooms, San Francisco, 1921; together with a placard hand-lettered by the artist, and a...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). A group of four portrait/caricature sketches, c. 1900s-1920s. Ranging in size from 4 1/8in x 4 3/8in to 9 1/4in x

Artist: Vaughan Trowbridge (1869-1945). Title/Description: Seaside landscape . Signature: One signed lower left, and inscribed "Paris/1900"...

Artist: Bertha Reid (1890-1971). Title/Description: "Mermaid". Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: c. 1920s-1930s. Medium/Ground:...

A group of three watercolors and a silverpoint/autographed letter signed. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Micaela dancing (Ser

A series of eight sketches of a football game, 1905. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: football game action scenes , inscribed...

An assortment of six signed drawings, with other unsigned and miscellaneous. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1859-1943). Title/Description: 1.) Waterc...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Group of six sketches: landscapes, including one with mesas ; vaqueros galloping; a child in t

A sketchbook and four Carmel landscape drawings. Artist: Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: New York and Carmel sketchbook; 23 pa

Artist: Gene Frances McComas (1886-1982). Title/Description: Seated male figure. Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: 20th Century. Medium/Gro

Artist: Unidentified. Title/Subject: Sandy slope with trees beyond. Signature: Signed lower right: R. J. McCabe? Or possibly R. J. M. Cabe? Date Creat

Artist: Gardner Hale (1894-1931). Title/Description: Buildings and bell tower. Signature: Signed lower left. Date Created: 1922. Medium/Ground: Waterc

An etching plate and two engraved prints: 1.) Peter Tom-Petersen (1826-1926). Thorvaldsens Museum and boats, Copenhagen. Tom-Petersen's monogram...

Artist: Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863).  Title/Desciption: Arabs d'Oran. Signature: Signed in etching; published by Imprimerie Dela...

Artist: Unknown. Title/Description: Neighborhood view with bay and hills beyond (likely depicts the East Bay, possibly Berkeley). Signature: Unsigned.

Etching, together with a group of ephemera: Artist: Ralph M. Pearson (1883-1958). Title/Description: Procession of figures in a bleak landscape. Signa

A painting on canvas, together with a collection of miscellaneous loose sketches. Artist: Virginia Swinburn Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: Mossy

Artist: Unknown. Title/Description: California oak and mountain landscape. Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: c. 1900s. Medium/Ground: Oil on Canvas.

Artist: Robert Harshe (1878-1938). Title/Description: "The Ostrich" (cypress tree). Signature: Signed and dedicated to Xavier Martinez, lo...

Artist: Adrian Gillespie Beach (20th Century). Title/Description: Landscape with trees (in pencil "Guernsey"?).  Signature: Signed lo...

Two engravings, appear to be later impressions; no watermarks: 1.) After Raphael, by Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1527). Massacre of the In...

Artist: June Foster Hass (1908-1982). Title/Description: Portrait head of Xavier Martinez in later years. Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: c. 1930s-

A grouping consisting of Xavier Martinez's charcoal box, drawing instruments, and a small sketchbook. MARTINEZ, XAVIER. 1869-1943. 1.) Leather s...

A group of seven sketches of Piedmont/Oakland Hills, two dated 1906, possibly done when Martinez was taken in by writer Herman Whitaker following the

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Large silhouettes: George Sterling; and Carrie Sterling, with Charmian London verso (3 works o

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Large silhouettes: Xavier Martinez self-portrait; and Elsie Whitaker Martinez, with self-portr

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Large silhouettes: Henry Anderson Lafler, Perry H. Newberry, with Bertha Newberry ...

Portrait profile of poet George Sterling, together with a sketch of Arizona pueblos. Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: "G...

XAVIER MARTINEZ, 1869-1943; [BAY AREA BOHEMIAN CROWD]. A collection of twenty caricatures (including Martinez self-portrait, Beniamino Bufano, ...

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Vaquero and owl; and Man walking in a fanciful scene with owl and other creatures. Signed: Bot

Artist: Xavier Martinez (1869-1943). Title/Description: Batik design of a face. Signature: Signed with monogram. Date Created: c. 1900s (possibly 1909

Artist: Arnold Genthe (1869-1942). Title/Description: Full-length portrait of Xavier Martinez. Signature: Unsigned. Inscription: Signed/inscribed by M

[MARTINEZ, XAVIER. 1869-1943.] An archive of numerous items belonging to Xavier Martinez, who was born Javier Timoteo Martinez y Orozco, in Guadalajar

Two images by unidentified photographer, showing Chinese New Years celebrations, likely in San Francisco, c. late 1880s/1890s (based on the wom...

Artist: Reginald Bassett. Title/Description: Xavier Martinez with cravat and headband (2 works). Signature: Signed on image lower right and lower left

Artist: Robert Vere Scott (1877-c. 1944). Title/Description: A sailing ship in the Golden Gate. Signature: Signed lower right : "Romere Scott&q...

A grouping of six photographs of Xavier Martinez with friends, and showing his studio interiors: 1.) Xavier Martinez at a table with Franc...

UNNA, WARREN. The Coppa Murals: A Pageant of Bohemian Life in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 19

[WHITAKER, HERMAN JAMES. 1867-1919; and other BOHEMIANS.] A Whitaker family history album compiled by Micaela Martinez DuCasse, containing ephe...

Two novels by Herman Whitaker signed/inscribed to his daughter, Elsie Whitaker Martinez, another signed, one with dedication/drawing by Xavier Martine

LONDON, JACK. 1876-1916. War of the Classes. New York and London: Macmillan Company, 1905. 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt to spine. Three pages of advert

Artist: Bianca Conti (Royce) (1881-1954). Title/Description: Elsie Whitaker Martinez with toddler Micaela, one with Elsie's long hair flowing, t...

[MARTINEZ, XAVIER, 1869-1943; MARTINEZ, ELSIE WHITAKER, 1890-1984]. The album (12 1/4in x 14in) with approx. 67 original snapshot photographs, ...

Artist: Bianca Conti (Royce) (1881-1954). Title/Description: Elsie Whitaker Martinez and baby Micaela; "Kay in her sixth year" (2 w...

[BOHEMIAN CLUB; MARTINEZ, XAVIER, 1869-1943.] A group of six photographs and approx. 24 pieces of ephemera (including a signed program and...

GARNET, PORTER. 1871-1951. The Bohemian Jinks, A Treatise. San Francisco: 1908. 12mo. Paper boards with printed title. A fold-out map of the Grove att

A Bohemian Grove play inscribed to Xavier Martinez by the author, novelist/dramatist Harry Leon Wilson, an early Bohemian resident of Carmel-by-the Se

Collection of Bohemian Club publications and ephemera, including Jinks volumes, menus, event programs, yearly reports, and a Grove Guide, comprising a

STEPHENS, H. MORSE. 1857-1919. St. Patrick at Tara, a Forest Play. Being the Thirty-Second Annual Midsummer High Jinks of the Bohemian Club of San Fra

Bohemian Grove play inscribed to Xavier Martinez by the author (together with a letter), and signed by Martinez. STEELE, RUFUS. 1877-1935. The ...

A large Panama-Pacific Exhibition Gold Medal certificate Awarded to "Xavier T. Martinez, designed by C. A. Huston and engraved by M. W. Baldwin...

UNIDENTIFIED/"ISSIO". A group of five handwritten letters (one with posted envelope), 1912-1915, addressed to artist Xavier &quo...

[CONNOLLY, VERA, 1888-1964; LEWIS, SINCLAIR, 1885-1951; STERLING, GEORGE, 1869-1926; and others.] Three photographs, including one signed: 1.) Louis S

Xavier and Elsie Martinez's collection of exhibition and other booklets and ephemera, consisting of approximately 17 pieces, mostly from San Fra...

Group of nine photographs of Xavier Martinez, by various photographers, c. 1920s-1940s. 1.-2.) Sadie Adriani (20th Century). Two portraits of X...

A collection of ephemera relating to Xavier Martinez and the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA/C), where he taught from 1908-1942. The group

MARTINEZ, ELSIE WHITAKER (1890-1984); and MARTINEZ, MICAELA (1913-1989). An archive of approximately 140+ envelopes/letters (many envelopes con...

Artist: Chana Orloff (1888-1968). Title: Three sketches: "a Michel la Sauvage de Californie" (Micaela Martinez); Harriet Dean; "...