Summer 2025

I n 1949, artist Donald “Don” Teague (1897-1991) hit the ground running when he moved to Carmel with family in tow. At age 52, Teague was a senior illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s . The year prior, he had been elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in his parallel career as a fine artist.The new arrivals (Don, his wife Verna, and two young daughters Linda and Hilary) were refugees—from Encino. Teague was no stranger to life’s adventures. Artistically gifted and inclined from boyhood, the native Brooklynite enrolled at Ar t Students League for two years upon comple- tion of high school. In 1920, after working in advertising for two years,Teague embarked on a three-month bicycling odyssey through post- war continental Europe with two friends. 104 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • S U M M E R 2 0 2 5 (Above) Teague excelled at nocturnes, as evidenced in this watercolor of the Carmel Mission. (Below) Teague was a rare but capable landscape artist. Here he captures Big Sur in early spring, in “Rain Over The Santa Lucias.”