Rinck, Jonathan. “Matthias Alten in Michigan.” Michigan History Magazine 99, no. 5 (September/October 2015): 32-37.
Abstract: The flickering, impressionistic brushstrokes and colors of Mathias Alten’s paintings — some 2,500 in number — were much admired in their time. He traveled and painted across Europe, finding particular inspiration on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. But the artist resisted the enticing allure of living on the continent, as so many other American painters of the early 20th century did. After all his journey’s abroad, he unfailingly returned home to Michigan, the inspiration for his finest paintings.
