Lake Temescal in the 1800's

The Bohemian Artists that camped at Lake Temescal: In the 1880s poets and landscape painters know an "plein air" artists gathered here. Ambrose Bierce (pictured) and George Sterling met at Lake Temescal before. Ambrose Bierce was one of the founding members of the Bohemian Club and Geroge Sterling was a writer. JHE Partington, a well known artist, lived in a tent in Lake Temescal when he and his family first arrived in Oakland. Painter William Wendt is shown here painting by the lake.