Edgar Payne The Scenic Journey

You can thank the Pasadena Museum of California Art for this mammoth book of inspiration.   If you're interested in not just an artist's work but their life as well this is a book you will thoroughly enjoy.  The writing, images, storytelling...everything is well done.  

I promise you this will be a book you will savor over and over again.  

Just the first few lines of the review of the book on Amazon:

One of the most gifted of the historic California plein-air painters, Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) utilized the animated brushwork, vibrant palette, and shimmering light of Impressionism, but his powerful imagery was unique among artists of his generation.