Frederick Behre

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An 1894 painting by Fred Behre features a wildly-improbable steeple over the entrance of Mission San Juan Capistrano's "Great Stone Church" (it was incorrectly believed to portray the way the church looked before the 1812 earthquake; archaeological excavations in 1938 revealed that the steeple placement as shown in the painting was impossible). The landscape in the background of this painting was later modified by John Gutzon Borglum. Watercolor and gouache.

Frederick John Behre (December 21, 1863 – March 10, 1942) was an American artist born in San Francisco, California.

Behre spent some years working for Hubert Howe Bancroft in Berkeley, California as an artist-designer. By 1888 he had established himself as as active member in the local art scene in Pasadena, where he helped found the Artists League of Southern California in 1893. Behre worked mostly in oils and painted still lifes. He died in 1942 in Los Angeles.

[edit] References

• Hughes, Edan (2002). Artists in California, 1786-1940. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. 

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