Raymond Dabb Yelland

Raymond Dabb Yelland (1848 -1900) was an American landscape painter and art instructor.

[2] He then studied at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1868 to 1872, and was hired as an instructor for one year after his graduation.

[3] Essentially a Realist, he specialized in painting the seashores and mountains of Northern California.

[4] Originally a follower of the Hudson River School, Yelland adopted a style called Luminism, inspired by artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford and John F.

[1] One of his paintings, Cities of the Golden Gate, a view of Oakland and San Francisco from the Berkeley hills, was described as "monumental" and a "heroic panorama bathed in a revelatory light".