Left Coast Writers® Bonnie Portnoy — The Man Beneath the Paint

Author Talk In Person 
* Saturday, May 11th, 2024 • 2:00 pm

Please join us for a reading by Bonnie Portnoy from her book, The Man Beneath the Paint, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers.

The untold, multifaceted story of one of the most adventurous and prolific landscape painters of the American West.

California Impressionist Tilden Daken (1876–1935), famous in his day, painted in every California state park and national park in the West—from the redwood forests to the High Sierra—and beneath the Pacific Ocean in a custom-built diving bell.

In The Man Beneath the Paint, Bonnie Portnoy, Daken’s granddaughter, has deftly defined his indomitable spirit, audacious exploits, insatiable curiosity, and endlessly colorful life during the era of California Impressionism—from the early 1900s to the onset of the Great Depression.