William Alexander Gaw ART FOR SALE

1891 San Francisco, California - 1973 Berkely, California. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape-coastal and still life painting.

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Landscape painter William Alexander Gaw was born in San Francisco, California in 1891. His father, Hugh Gaw, was also an artist, a watercolorist. With an early interest in art, Gaw enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute as a youth. There he studied under James Martin Griffin, a landscape painter. Gaw exhibited his work in the San Francisco area in 1912 before moving to Berkeley by 1923. He spent the rest of his life there and painted many landscapes inspired by his local surroundings. Later in his career Gaw lectured on the science of color and technique. He was known to have painted using bright colors and experimented in both Cubist and Post-Impressionist art forms. Gaw was also a teacher in the 1930's at the California School of... Read full biography

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Fishnet

Type:Painting

Year:1949

Size:12.00" x 16.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

Notes:

Exhibited this year at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey Collects California, Jan. 19-April 30, 2023. Label verso. Oil and fishnet. Frame perhaps created by the artist.

Price: Please contact Hauk Fine Arts

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Rockaway Beach, Pacifica

Type:Painting

Size:30.00" x 36.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

Price: Please contact Josh Hardy Galleries