Piazzoni, Gottardo – Untitled (Parkfield, Monterey)

Gottardo Piazzoni emigrated from the Italian-speaking Swiss Canton Ticino to Carmel Valley in 1886, and an early talent for art led him to the California School of Design. Piazzoni became a major mural painter as well as an exhibiting easel painter. His later oils are renderings of the hills and woods of California in soft shades characteristic of the artist’s subdued style. His “Land” and “Sea” murals can be found in the Piazzoni Room of the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.