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eytel james sketching -- during his trip with george wharton karl adolf wilhelm eytel maichingen jimmy , george wharton james swinnerton , edmund jaeger , j. smeaton chase 280px martha m. newkirk 12 september 1862 file his pad during his trip with george wharton james to : the colorado river , ca. 1900 -lrb- chs-4299 -rrb- . carl jpg eytel , artist , sketching on carl eytel
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carl eytel

carl eytel -lrb- september 12 , 1862 -- september 17 , 1925 -rrb- was a german american artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the american southwest .
immigrating to the united states in 1885 , he eventually settled in palm springs , california in 1903 .
with an extensive knowledge of the sonoran desert , eytel traveled with author george wharton james as he wrote the successful `` wonders of the colorado desert '' , and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work .
while he enjoyed success as an artist , he lived as an ascetic and eventually died in poverty .
eytel 's most important work , `` desert near palm springs '' , hangs in the history room of the california state library .
