The Pilgrim
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1915
Size:30.00" x 25.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Joe Gleason ART FOR SALE
1881 Watsonville, California - 1959 Glendale, California. Known for: Marine, landscape and portrait painting.
Joe Duncan Gleason's modest beginnings hardly hinted at his illustrious life to come. Raised in Los Angeles, youngest of three children born to a woman who was emancipated enough to divorce her... Read full biography
Joe Duncan Gleason's modest beginnings hardly hinted at his illustrious life to come. Raised in Los Angeles, youngest of three children born to a woman who was emancipated enough to divorce her husband, in 1894 at the age of 14, he began working at the Union Engraving Company as an illustrator.... Read full biography
Joe Duncan Gleason's modest beginnings hardly hinted at his illustrious life to come. Raised in Los Angeles, youngest of three children born to a woman who was emancipated enough to divorce her husband, in 1894 at the age of 14, he began working at the Union Engraving Company as an illustrator. Over the next twenty years, thanks to scrapbooks kept by a doting mother, it is possible to keep close track of his growth and see how he developed the many different facets of his personality. His main... Read full biography
Joe Duncan Gleason's modest beginnings hardly hinted at his illustrious life to come. Raised in Los Angeles, youngest of three children born to a woman who was emancipated enough to divorce her husband, in 1894 at the age of 14, he began working at the Union Engraving Company as an illustrator. Over the next twenty years, thanks to scrapbooks kept by a doting mother, it is possible to keep close track of his growth and see how he developed the many different facets of his personality. His main thrust was always art. While supporting himself as an illustrator, he completed his abridged schooling and art education at art school in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago (school year 1902-3) and finally the Art Students League in New York (1903-4... Read full biography
Joe Duncan Gleason's modest beginnings hardly hinted at his illustrious life to come. Raised in Los Angeles, youngest of three children born to a woman who was emancipated enough to divorce her husband, in 1894 at the age of 14, he began working at the Union Engraving Company as an illustrator. Over the next twenty years, thanks to scrapbooks kept by a doting mother, it is possible to keep close track of his growth and see how he developed the many different facets of his personality. His main thrust was always art. While supporting himself as an illustrator, he completed his abridged schooling and art education at art school in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago (school year 1902-3) and finally the Art Students League in New York (1903-4 and spring 1906). In New York (1903-1914), he illustrated for such magazines as Leslie's Monthly, Ladies Home... Read full biography
Joe Gleason - Art for Sale (3 available)
Full Masted Ship Off Catalina Island
Type:Painting
Year:Circa 1930
Size:26.25" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
A three masted ship sails south off the windward side of Catalina Island having just passed the island's west end. Featuring Gleason's trademark palette of rich blues and turquoise colors with strong brushwork throughout. In original period California gilt frame. 31.25 x 35 in framed
Smugglers' Cove
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1920s-30s
Size:10.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Though title label verson is followed by "Laguna Beach," this appears to be Smuggler's Cove at Channel Island National Park , Santa Cruz Island. Gleason was author-illustrastor of Windjammers, Island, California. From a Monterey Peninsula, CA. collection.