Out of the Fog

Paul Lingenbrink Whitman

Paul Whitman lived in Carmel, California where he studied printmaking with Armin Hansen and, like Hansen, was inspired by the fishing and sailing in Monterey Bay. In this composition a hunter in a slicker holds a row-boat as a figure emerges out of the fog holding the goose he had shot. The wind is blowing and the sun is just beginning to burn off the fog.

Paul Lingenbrink Whitman, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher, was born in Denver, Colorado on April 23, 1897. His family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri and as a young man, he was sent to a preparatory school in the east, which readied him for Yale University. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the first world war as he was inducted into the U.S. Army, where he served in the European theatre as a lieutenant. After the war, Whitman studied at the University of Washington in St. Louis and married and began a successful but short career in the insurance field.

In 1926, Whitman moved to his family to Carmel, California. He immediately became involved with the burgeoning artistic community and continued his art studies under his friend and mentor, Armin Hansen. He supported his family by teaching at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. Whitman produced a body of watercolors, oils, lithographs, and intaglios and eventually built a home on the famed golf course in Pebble Beach.