The Road to Marin, 1929
Type:Painting
Year:1929
Size:24.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Selden Connor Gile ART FOR SALE
1877 Stow, Maine - 1947 Belvedere, California. Known for: Modernist landscape, marine and figure painting.
The major force behind the Society of Six in the 1920s in the Bay Area of California, Selden Gile set aesthetic standards that espoused color and guided the group with the strength of his... Read full biography
The major force behind the Society of Six in the 1920s in the Bay Area of California, Selden Gile set aesthetic standards that espoused color and guided the group with the strength of his personality, physical energy, and warm hospitality. Departing from dominant decorative and Tonalist influences... Read full biography
The major force behind the Society of Six in the 1920s in the Bay Area of California, Selden Gile set aesthetic standards that espoused color and guided the group with the strength of his personality, physical energy, and warm hospitality. Departing from dominant decorative and Tonalist influences of Arthur Mathews and William Keith, the Society of Six created a new landscape art of sunny reality; it was Impressionism-Fauvism applied to the California Scene. The other painters associated with... Read full biography
The major force behind the Society of Six in the 1920s in the Bay Area of California, Selden Gile set aesthetic standards that espoused color and guided the group with the strength of his personality, physical energy, and warm hospitality. Departing from dominant decorative and Tonalist influences of Arthur Mathews and William Keith, the Society of Six created a new landscape art of sunny reality; it was Impressionism-Fauvism applied to the California Scene. The other painters associated with Gile in this rebellion were Maurice Logan, William Clapp, Bernard von Eichman, August Gay, and Louis Siegriest. Gile was born in Stow, Maine, to parents from Salem, England, and was named for Seldon Connor, Governor of Maine. The family lived on a... Read full biography
The major force behind the Society of Six in the 1920s in the Bay Area of California, Selden Gile set aesthetic standards that espoused color and guided the group with the strength of his personality, physical energy, and warm hospitality. Departing from dominant decorative and Tonalist influences of Arthur Mathews and William Keith, the Society of Six created a new landscape art of sunny reality; it was Impressionism-Fauvism applied to the California Scene. The other painters associated with Gile in this rebellion were Maurice Logan, William Clapp, Bernard von Eichman, August Gay, and Louis Siegriest. Gile was born in Stow, Maine, to parents from Salem, England, and was named for Seldon Connor, Governor of Maine. The family lived on a farm, but from childhood, he was regarded as different from his boisterous, carousing brothers because of his artistic talents a... Read full biography
Selden Connor Gile - Art for Sale (5 available)
Cows in the Valley
Type:Painting
Size:7.38" x 9.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Country Farm
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1915-18
Size:10.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Excellent condition and beautifully framed! For more information please contact Lawrence Beebe at 949.981.0070
Italian Fisherman
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1927
Size:14.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Tiburon Waterfront
Type:Painting
Size:12.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Unfinished Painting on the Back Estate Letter