Tim Solliday, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tim Solliday

American artist

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1952

Place of Birth: Ottumwa, Iowa, United States

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Tim Solliday is a contemporary California Plein-Air Painter and Western Artist who is known for his San Gabriel Valley landscapes and his paintings of American Indians and other western subjects.
He studied with the California Impressionist portrait and landscape painter Theodore Lukits (1897–1992) in the 1970s and began working professionally in the early 1980s.
Solliday is described as a painter with a "muscular, masculine style" and has been compared to artists of the Taos Ten, especially E.
Martin Hennings.
He is a Signature Member of the California Art Club (f.
1909).
He exhibits with the Laguna Plein-Air Painters Association, the Oil Painters of America and at the Maynard Dixon Invitational, which is held in Utah each year.
Solliday's work has been featured in a number of American art magazines such as Southwest Art, American Artist and Art of the West.
Through his plein-air work in the pastel medium and large canvasses, he has played an important role in the revival of landscape painting in Southern California.