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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
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •California Style
- •Fauve, Fauvism, Strong, Vivid Coloration
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •Mount Tamalpais, California
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League
- •Society of Six-California
Art School
- •California College of Arts and Crafts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Morton H. Fleischer Collection
- •U.S. Embassy, Art in Embassies Program, Foundation
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Monterey and Carmel-By-The-Sea
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League-
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York