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Artists Frank and Lillian Heath
By Margaret Koch
Frank L. Heath courted Lillian Dake Storey during painting trips around Santa Cruz County back in the 1890s.
Those were the years when Lillian was riding a saddle horse daily from Santa Cruz to the Powdermill where she taught
school. Today [1974] the Powdermill is Paradise Park.
Frank's actual proposal of marriage was delivered at Rocky Falls, a beautiful scenic place on Carbonero Creek. There he
had constructed a painting platform with a perfect view of the rushing waters, and it was there that he asked Lillian, in
that formal day and age, to be his bride.
Frank was nearly 40 years old at the time, and Lillian was about 32.
She had always been interested in art and had talent to a large degree. She took a year's leave of absence from teaching
school to travel alone to New York where she visited relatives and stayed to study china painting and the painting of
miniatures which is an art in itself.
"When I returned from New York I enrolled in the art classes of a Santa Cruz artist who was making a name for himself,"
she once said with a smile.
The artist was Frank L. Heath, and that was the start of their romance, she told me in 1959. She accepted Frank's
proposal at Rocky Falls.
At the Heath home on Third Street, Beach Hill, Frank added a wing with a large studio workroom downstairs and several
bedrooms upstairs. That was his wedding gift to his bride.
"The Studio" had a fireplace and big bay windows that looked out over the town of Santa Cruz and back to the
mountains they both loved and painted many times. Lillian painted a set of tiles for the fireplace; they showed darting
swallows in the clouds above a stream where songbirds perched on tules and water lilies floated.
In 1897 Lillian and Frank were married in the First Methodist Church and they moved into the home on Beach Hill, a
house she continued to live in for 64 years.
Frank's father, Lucien Heath, was the first Secretary of State of Oregon. He came to Santa Cruz from Oregon in 1866 with
his wife Jane and sons Frank and Henry. A daughter, Lina, had died in Michigan where the Heaths lived before crossing
the plains to Oregon in 1852.
In Santa Cruz Lucien Heath opened one of the early hardware stores on Pacific Avenue in partnership with John Byrne.
He also had real estate interests and was elected president of Santa Cruz County Bank, and twice elected to the State
Legislature. He died in 1888 while on a trip East and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
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�Lucien Heath's brother, Captain Albert Heath, saw distinguished service with Company 1, 44th Indiana Regiment, in the
Civil War. He wrote an account of the Battle of Shiloh which was published.
Lucien's sons had differing interests. Henry went into the hardware business like his father, but all Frank wanted to do
was paint pictures. He studied at Mark Hopkins art Institute in San Francisco, then taught there for 11 years before
opening his Santa Cruz Studio. His oil paintings won many awards and were exhibited at the first Chicago World's Fair,
the St. Louis World's Fair and the California State Exhibits in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco.
Lillian, who was born in Milwaukee in 1864, came to Santa Cruz with her mother and stepfather, Judge and Mrs. William
D. Storey, in 1877. She graduated as a school teacher in 1822, and taught for seven years at the Powdermill School.
Lillian had joined the First Methodist Church (then the Methodist Episcopal Church) in 1877, on arrival here. She and
Frank played active roles in the church's development and he served as occasional interim preacher. Lillian gave the
church its beautiful rose window in memory of her mother and stepfather and Heath Hall at the church's old location on
Church Street, was named in Frank and Lillian's honor.
They spent many happy days painting. Once in the spring, they took a horse and wagon trip to Yosemite to paint the
famed falls and mountain crags.
Frank founded the Jolly Daubers, a local group he instructed and led on many an excursion around the county.
"He would rent a horse and carryall," Lillian reminisced in recent years. "The livery stable would send it around early in
the morning to pick up each member of the art class. Then we'd go to Felton or Scotts Valley or up the coast to spend a
day painting."
Would-be artists scrambled aboard the horse-drawn bus with lunches and painting equipment. The ladies wore large
sunhats to protect their fragile complexions. They also carried parasols and small folding canvas seats. Wood seats in the
"bus" ran the full length of both sides.
Among the ardent students was Margaret Rogers, the Monterey cowgirl-turned-artist. Another student of Frank Heath's
was Lillian Howard who later taught at Santa Cruz High School and whose pen and ink sketches of early Santa Cruz
landmarks, are well known today.
By 1919, life in Santa Cruz was becoming a bit more sophisticated. On October 18 of that year, a small group of local
artists met to organize themselves into a formal art club—the Santa Cruz Art League. Frank Heath was elected its first
president and Margaret Rogers, vice president.
Lillian had given up oils when she married, explaining in later years: "My husband's oils were so superior"—a nice way of
saying she did not wish to compete. She gave lessons in china painting and the painting of miniatures, and she became a
skilled watercolorist. In her later years, after Frank had died, she painted a few oils, but she never felt that her work
compared to Frank's.
One notable example of her china painting was a full dinner set for 12, complete with platters, covered serving dishes
and demi tasse coffees. It was very elegant with dark red floral patterns and gold trim.
When I visited the Heath home on Beach Hill as a small girl (we were related by marriage), I used to stand in awe before
the huge mahogany and glass cabinet that held that dinner service. I realized, even then, that I was looking at something
pretty special.
Frank Heath died in 1921, just a few days after a number of his oils had been destroyed in a fire at Mount Hermon
where they were on display at the time. Lillian never told him—he was very ill. But she mourned their loss for years—as
well as her personal loss.
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�She lived for 40 years alone in the Beach Hill home, renting out part of it as apartments. She painted up until a year or
two before she died in August of 1961, aged 97. She was sweet-tempered and interested in everything up to her last
day.
I remember her as a dear little person from another age who wore longish dresses and gold chains and amethysts, spoke
softly and was a "lady" in the finest sense of that old fashioned word.
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This article originally appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel August 25, 1974, p. 19. ©1974 Margaret Koch. It is
used here by permission of Margaret Koch.
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<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>, August 25, 1974, p. 19.
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The "City of Santa Cruz" painting hangs on the stairway landing near the second floor entrance to the Young People's room at the Downtown Branch.
The Santa Cruz Daily Surf reported, "the picture of the City of Santa Cruz, painted by F. L. Heath for exhibition at the World's Fair was accepted by the jury selection and shipped to Chicago, March 31st. On its return it will be the property of the Free Public Library." (p.5) The painting was paid for by public subscription. The Surf article continued with the names of the donors and the amount that each gave. The cost of the painting, which included $100 for the frame, was $450. The painting was returned to the library by July, 1894.
Frank L. Heath was born in Dallas, Oregon on July 3rd, 1857. He moved to Santa Cruz with his family in 1866. He moved to San Francisco to study art at the San Francisco School of Design, and returned to Santa Cruz 11 years later. Heath hosted a group of art students known as the Jolly Daubers at his studio in Beach Hill. Heath also established the Santa Cruz Art League along with Margaret Rogers in 1919. Frank L. Heath died in Santa Cruz on April 21, 1921.
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Artists in California 1786-1940.
Edan Milton Hughes. Crocker Art Museum, 2002. p. 505.
Santa Cruz Daily Surf.
May 5th, 1893 (p. 5 col. 3), and July 7th, 1894 (p. 4).
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Heath Painting at the Downtown Branch Library
This photograph in the Library's collection shows the "City
of Santa Cruz" by Frank L. Heath hanging in the Reading
Room of the Carnegie library in 1941. By that time, the
Library had owned the painting for nearly fifty years.
The Santa Cruz Daily Surf reports on May 5, 1893 (p. 3)
that:
"The picture of the City of Santa Cruz, painted by F.L. Heath
for exhibition at the World's Fair was accepted by the jury
of selection and shipped to Chicago, March 31st. On its
return it will be the property of the Free Public Library."
The painting was paid for by public subscription. The Surf
article continues with the names of the donors and the
amounts that each gave. The cost of the painting, included Heath Painting: "City of Santa Cruz"
$100 for the frame, was $450. On July 7, 1894, the Surf
reported that the painting, "which has been on exhibition at the World and Midwinter Fairs has been again placed on
exhibition in the Free Library." (p.4)
In 1904, the painting was again loaned out and displayed at the St. Louis Exhibition.
Frank L. Heath was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1857. During his childhood, he moved to Santa Cruz, California, with his
family. After studying at the School of Design, he remained in San Francisco. Eleven years later, he returned to Santa
Cruz and set up his studio on Beach Hill. He died in Santa Cruz on April 21, 1921.
Today, in August 2001, the "City of Santa Cruz" hangs on the stairway landing near the second floor entrance to the
Young People's room at the Downtown Branch.
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Santa Cruz Daily Surf.
Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California, 1786--1940. 2nd edition. Hughes Publishing Co., 1989.
Library Staff.
RAP; 8/2001.
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The Jolly Daubers
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Art and Artists
Heath, Frank
Lorenzo Palmer Latimer
Heath, Lillian
Howard, Lillian
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Dunn. Geoffrey
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Santa Cruz Magazine, v6n3, p60-63.
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2011-Fall
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