DAY 1-VICTORIAN & ESTATE ANTIQUES AUCTION | JAN. 29th
Lot 88:
Original oil painting on board by listed Oregon artist, Clayton Sumner Price (OR, CA, 1874 – 1950), signed lower left. Features a sunny streamside landscape. Art measures 8" h x 10" w presented in a frame measuring 14.5" x 16.5".
Artist bio: In 1905, at age 32, he went to St. Louis and enrolled at the St. Louis School of the Fine Arts, his only formal training. He found it frustrating because of the emphasis on conveying realistic images, but the technical information was valuable. He met and received encouragement from Charlie Russell, the famous western painter and spent much time in the museums and libraries of St. Louis. Although he did not seek recognition, it came in the 1940s when the Portland Art Museum gave him a one-man show in 1942, and in 1945 and 1946, when he was in major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He also had one-person shows in New York galleries, and museums around the country began to acquire his work. In the 1940s, his work also became much more personal and meditative with religious undertones.
Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1916-24; Galerie Beaux Arts (SF), 1925 (solo); Berkeley League of FA, 1927 (solo); Galerie Beaux Arts (SF), 1927; De Young Museum, 1939; Portland (OR) Museum, 1942, 1949, 1951, 1976 (solos); MOMA, 1943, 1946; Detroit Inst. of Arts, 1944; MOMA (NYC), 1945, 1946; Valentine Gallery (NYC), 1945; AIC, 1947; Reed College (OR), 1948 (solo); Willard Gallery (NYC), 1949 (solo); Downtown Gallery (NYC), 1958 (solo); Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, 1967; SFMA, 1976; Oakland Museum, 1981; St Mary’s College (Moraga, CA), 1998 (solo). In: Orange Co. (CA) Museum; Portland Museum; Oakland Museum; LACMA; MM.
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