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The Anthroposophical School of Watercolor Painting
Posted on Sep 10th, 2006
by 
Jeff Mishlove
Jeff Mishlove
Master and Disciples by Maulsby Kimball
One of the prize paintings in my personal art collection is the watercolor shown above. It was painted by Maulsby Kimball, former President of the Anthroposophical Society in America. Shortly after my wife, Janelle, and I were married, Maulsby and his wife, Ilse, invited us to visit them in their home in Campbell, California, near Sacramento. At that time, 28 years ago, Maulsby and Ilse presented this watercolor to us as a wedding gift. Based on the esoteric teachings of the Austrian mystic, Rudolf Steiner, the watercolor is an endeavor to capture the realities of what is known to theosophists and anthroposophists as the etheric and/or the astral planes. Maulsby Kimball's work is an outstanding example of the Anthroposophical school of watercolor painting.
See my previous blogs on Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy.
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Hi Jeffrey,
So great to discover your blog and especially this tribute to Maulsby Kimball and his paintings. I got to know Maulsby and Ilse when I lived in the NE Sacramento area, attending Rudolf Steiner College in the early 80s in the town of Fair oaks. The Kimballs lived in the adjacent town of Carmichael (not Campbell) and I vividly recall the times I'd visit them and how Maulsby would show me all of the paintings he still had on hand.
(My former wife Jennifer has a Maulsby painting wth a madonna and child motif that really inspired and soothed her during her pregnancy with our daughter Amelia, born in Carmichael in 1983.)
Ilse was quite a character in herself. Did you know that she was one of the original eurythmists trained by Rudolf Steiner himself? And that she performed eurythmy in the early evening at the Goetheanum on New Years Eve 1922-23, when the fire that destroyed the building was smoldering? Late at night , around 11 PM, she watched in horror the final collapse of the wooden building in flames from a nearby hill in Basel where she lived.
Best to you and keep up the good blogging work.
Tom Mellett
Van Nuys, CA