Backwaters near Sauvie Island
Type:Painting
Year:1935
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Clyde Leon Keller ART FOR SALE
1872 Salem, Oregon - 1962 Cannon Beach, Oregon. Known for: Landscape, coastal views, cartoon.
Clyde Leon Keller was born in Salem, Oregon on February 22, 1872. He studied at Willamette College and for a while was a cartoonist for the Oregon Statesman in his native city. He studied art in... Read full biography
Clyde Leon Keller was born in Salem, Oregon on February 22, 1872. He studied at Willamette College and for a while was a cartoonist for the Oregon Statesman in his native city. He studied art in Munich with Bridges and with Knowles in Boston. From 1896 to 1906, Keller lived in San Francisco where... Read full biography
Clyde Leon Keller was born in Salem, Oregon on February 22, 1872. He studied at Willamette College and for a while was a cartoonist for the Oregon Statesman in his native city. He studied art in Munich with Bridges and with Knowles in Boston. From 1896 to 1906, Keller lived in San Francisco where he studied painting with Ernst W. Christmas while working as a cartoonist for the Examiner. Keller lost many of his early art works in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Returning to Oregon, he... Read full biography
Clyde Leon Keller was born in Salem, Oregon on February 22, 1872. He studied at Willamette College and for a while was a cartoonist for the Oregon Statesman in his native city. He studied art in Munich with Bridges and with Knowles in Boston. From 1896 to 1906, Keller lived in San Francisco where he studied painting with Ernst W. Christmas while working as a cartoonist for the Examiner. Keller lost many of his early art works in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Returning to Oregon, he established an art store in Portland, where he was known as "Keller, the Art Man." He continued to make sketching trips to California. He died in Cannon Beach, Oregon on August 7, 1962. During his career he did about 4,500 paintings which won more than 250... Read full biography
Clyde Leon Keller was born in Salem, Oregon on February 22, 1872. He studied at Willamette College and for a while was a cartoonist for the Oregon Statesman in his native city. He studied art in Munich with Bridges and with Knowles in Boston. From 1896 to 1906, Keller lived in San Francisco where he studied painting with Ernst W. Christmas while working as a cartoonist for the Examiner. Keller lost many of his early art works in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Returning to Oregon, he established an art store in Portland, where he was known as "Keller, the Art Man." He continued to make sketching trips to California. He died in Cannon Beach, Oregon on August 7, 1962. During his career he did about 4,500 paintings which won more than 250 prizes. Both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt were among his prestigious customers. He was a member of the Oregon Society of Artis... Read full biography
Clyde Leon Keller - Art for Sale (6 available)
"A Summers Day - Columbia Slough"
Type:Painting
Year:c1925
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Prime period Keller with heavy impasto seen in the sky.
Field of Gold
Type:Painting
Year:1930
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
A splash of bright Summer color on Sauvies Island in Keller best year…lovely brushwork…period Newcomb-Macklin frame…Oregon State Fair Exhibit. One of Keller's very best works! The wonderful impasto of the gold & purple field in bloom harkens a bit to a Monet, if he'd painted in Oregon!
Sauvie Island
Type:Painting
Year:1925
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Unusually bright pastel palette on this freely brushed, prime period Keller.
A Summer Day
Type:Painting
Year:1930
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
A great Keller painting, signed in red, from 1930, his career best year artistically! Painted from above the Columbia River, outside Gresham, Oregon, looking over at Washington State hills in the background. Lovely reflection in the water, billowy clouds and sun-dappled trees.
On Columbia Slough
Type:Painting
Year:c1925
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Painted on black Weber canvas board.