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1888 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1970 Santa Rosa, California. Known for: Landscape.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San Francisco was a few months before the disaster of 1906. While working with his father as a sign and... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San Francisco was a few months before the disaster of 1906. While working with his father as a sign and scenery painter, he studied at the Institute of Art. During his five years at that school he also studied privately with local artists Maynard Dixon, C. Chapel Judson, and Emil Grebs. In 1912 Kress... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San Francisco was a few months before the disaster of 1906. While working with his father as a sign and scenery painter, he studied at the Institute of Art. During his five years at that school he also studied privately with local artists Maynard Dixon, C. Chapel Judson, and Emil Grebs. In 1912 Kress began making painting excursions into the Big Sur area, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and Marin County when not working in the paint department of Foster & Kleiser (billboards), a position he held for 42 years. He exhibited with the San Francisco Art Ass'n... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San Francisco was a few months before the disaster of 1906. While working with his father as a sign and scenery painter, he studied at the Institute of Art. During his five years at that school he also studied privately with local artists Maynard Dixon, C. Chapel Judson, and Emil Grebs. In 1912 Kress began making painting excursions into the Big Sur area, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and Marin County when not working in the paint department of Foster & Kleiser (billboards), a position he held for 42 years. He exhibited with the San Francisco Art Ass'n until 1920 and after that time painted strictly for pleasure and was not known to have exhibited or sold any of his paintings. A resident of San.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Lake Tahoe, California
- •Yosemite National Park
Art School
- •California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association