Fred Grayson Sayre ART FOR SALE

1879 Medoc, Missouri - 1939 Glendale, California. Known for: Landscape, figure, genre.

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Born in Medoc, MO on Jan. 9, 1879. Sayre worked in the lead and zinc mines and manufactured leather goods before settling on an art career. He remained a self-taught artist except for two months with J. Laurie Wallace in Omaha. His first creative job as an artist was as an employee of an engraving company in Houston, TX. Sick with diptheria, he moved to California in 1917. Traveling by train, he was enchanted with the Southwest desert and vowed to return, which he did in 1919. For three years he worked in Arizona as a bookkeeper for a mining company while painting in his leisure. Upon returning to California in 1922, he soon built a home and studio in Glendale where he remained until his death on Jan. 1, 1939 (the same day that Frank... Read full biography

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Untitled - Western Landscape, Owens Valley, c. 1925

Type:Painting

Year:c. 1925

Size:16.00" x 20.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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This western genre oil painting by F. Grayson Sayre, circa 1925, depicts a rider on horseback and his packhorse heading into a desert landscape with rising purple and snow-capped mountains in the background.

Price: SOLD