Paul A. Grimm (January 11, 1891 – December 30, 1974)[1] was an artist born toGerman parents inSouth Africa. As a small child, he moved with his parents to theUnited States. He reportedly was seen as having artistic talent as a child and, as an adult, attended a university-level art school inNew York. Between 1910 and 1920, he reportedly went toSouth America for a few years before returning to the United States and settling inSouthern California.
Grimm gained much of his present-day fame by painting landscapes of southern California in the 1920s. Many works depict alluvial fans and desert vegetation in the eastern half ofRiverside County. TheSan Jacinto Mountains appear frequently in his work. Most of the works are oil on canvas. To a viewer untrained in art, his work looks similar to desert landscapes of Karl Albert (1911–2007). A residence on Calle Palo Fierro in the Warm Sands neighborhood ofPalm Springs was built for Grimm in 1935. He had a studio on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs from the 1950s until his death in 1974.[2]
His work is held by thePalm Springs Art Museum, the Picerne Arizona Landmark Collection at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum inWickenburg, Arizona,[3] and theIrvine Museum Collection at theUniversity of California, Irvine.[4] Grimm's works have been part of numerous exhibitions at the Irvine.[5][6][7]
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