Painting the coast redwoods on the Russian River, Sonoma County.

Tilden Daken Exhibitions and Commissioned Works

2015: “A Brush with the Past,” Depot Park Museum, Sonoma, California.

2008: “California Landscapes,” Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California. Collection of 19th- and 20th-century landscapes by Tilden Daken, William Keith, Thomas Hill, and Lorenzo Latimer.

2003: “California’s Epic Landscapes,” Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, California. Collection of 40 Yosemite works by Tilden Daken, Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon, and Thomas Hill.

1990:  “Along the Russian River: An Artistic Interpretation,” Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California. Collection of paintings by Tilden Daken, William Keith, Thomas Hill, Lorenzo Latimer, Carl Sammons, Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, and others.

1988: “Paintings of the Great Basin,” Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas.

1988: “Paintings of the Great Basin,” Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1977: “200 Years of American Painting,” Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California.

1970: “Marin Artists of Yesteryear,” Marin Museum Association, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, California.

1966: “One Hundred Years of California Painting from 1849,” Maxwell Galleries Ltd., San Francisco, California.

1962: “Paintings of California,” Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco, California.

1934: “Annual Art Exhibit,” North Canon Library, Canton, Ohio.

1933: “Exhibition of Paintings By Tilden Dakin,” Webb C. Bell Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio.

1933: View of Russian River from Guernewood Heights, Bohemian Club, San Francisco, California.

1931: “Tilden Dakin Exhibition,” Des Artistes Gallery, New York, New York.

1931: “Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Tilden Dakin,” B. Altman & Co., New York, New York.

1930: “Exhibition of Portraits of the Highest American Ecclesiastics,” featuring Submarine Gardens paintings by Tilden Dakin, Union League Club, New York, New York.

1930: “California Landscapes and Undersea Paintings,”  J. W. Young Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.

1929: “Exhibition of American and European artists,” Dakin painted to music before an audience, Architects’ Building, Los Angeles, California.

1928: “Art Development in Marin County,” Outdoor Club, Mill Valley, California.

1928:  “Tilden Dakin Exhibition,” Lexington Hotel Art Gallery, Oakland, California.

1928: “California Scenes from the Brush of Tilden Dakin,” Malcolm Brock Company, Bakersfield, California.

1927: “Tilden Dakin Exhibition,” Hotel Claremont Art Gallery, Berkeley, California.

1927: “Marin Artists,” Marin County Fair and Harvest Festival, Community House, Novato, California.

1926: “Exhibition by Deep Sea Artist, Tilden Dakin,” Gage’s Art Gallery, Stockton, California.

1924: “Musical Selections on Canvas,” Norse Studio, Hollywood, California.

1924: “Exhibition of Tilden Daken Paintings,” Aislin Galleries, New York, New York.

1924: Daken wins first prize for The Spirit of the Redwoods, Boston Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, in an exhibition with 40 other artists.

1924: “Rim of the World,” Jonathon Club, Los Angeles, California.

1924: “Tilden Dakin Exhibition,” a collection of 75 key of red paintings, Franklin Galleries, Hollywood, California.

1923: Tilden Dakin paints to music for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce with musical director Antoinette Sable.

1923: Exhibition, key of red paintings, Cannell and Chaffin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

1923: “Exhibition of Paintings by Tilden Dakin and Karl Yens,” Norse Studio, Hollywood, California.

1923: “Tilden Dakin Red Poetic Art,” Franklin Galleries, Hollywood, California.

1923: “Northern California Alps” collection from the winter of 1922 expedition, Gage’s Art gallery, Stockton, California.

1922: “Northern California Alps” collection from the winter of 1922 expedition, the Pandora Box, Sacramento, California.

1915: “South of the Border,” an exhibition of paintings, the Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California.

1915: “The Mexican Exhibit” featuring Tilden Daken’s “vast red mural,” the Palace of Agriculture, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California.

1911: “S. T. Daken, Artist, Exhibition of Oil Paintings,”  The Maze Gallery, Petaluma, California.

1911: “S. T. Daken, Artist, Exhibition of Oil Paintings,” Sacramento Hotel, Sacramento, California.

1910: Tilden Daken collection, Northwestern Pacific, San Francisco, California.

1910: “Sonoma Valley Beautiful” exhibition, Santa Rosa, California.

1909: “S. T. Daken’s Landscapes,” Hall’s Art Store, Santa Rosa, California.

1908: “Art Exhibition of Oil Paintings by S. T. Daken, the Sonoma County Artist,” Elks Club, Santa Rosa, California.

1908: Daken paints a theater curtain, commissioned by the Mayflower Hall, Glen Ellen, California.

1908: “S. T. Daken, Artist, Exhibition of Oil Paintings,” Gage’s Art Gallery, Stockton, California.

1908: “S.T. Daken Exhibition,” Bruner’s Fine Arts, Santa Rosa, California.

1907: Daken paints a scene of the Sonoma Mission on a salvaged roof tile, commissioned by Louisa Vallejo, General Mariano Vallejo’s daughter, Sonoma, California (hangs today in the Swiss Chalet, an interpretive center at Vallejo’s home, Sonoma State Historic Park, Sonoma).

1907:  Daken paints the Union Hall theater curtain, commissioned by the Union Hotel, Sonoma, California (hangs today at the Depot Park Museum, Sonoma).

1907: “S.T. Daken Landscape Artist,” exhibition at City Hall, Santa Rosa, California.

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Tilden Daken painting on the rim of the World, Lake Arrowhead, 1923.

Tilden Daken painting on the Rim of the World, Lake Arrowhead, 1923.

Tilden Daken painting on the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.

Tilden Daken painting on the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.