Oakland Museum of California
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Oakland, CA 94607
Oakland, CA 94607
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1899 Oakland, California - 1989 Oakland, California. Known for: Modernist landscape, illustrator.
A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the... Read full biography
A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the 1920s with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six. Members rebelled against the prevalent... Read full biography
A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the 1920s with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six. Members rebelled against the prevalent sombre Tonalism of William Keith and the genteel Classicism of Arthur Mathews. He was born to a father who drove the first horse-drawn streetcars in Oakland and then made a fortune in the heating oil... Read full biography
A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the 1920s with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six. Members rebelled against the prevalent sombre Tonalism of William Keith and the genteel Classicism of Arthur Mathews. He was born to a father who drove the first horse-drawn streetcars in Oakland and then made a fortune in the heating oil business with acetylene gas machines for gaslights. Louis lived his entire life in the family mansion where he was born in north Oakland and later raised his own family including a son, Lundy, who became a well-known artist. His parents encouraged... Read full biography
A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the 1920s with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six. Members rebelled against the prevalent sombre Tonalism of William Keith and the genteel Classicism of Arthur Mathews. He was born to a father who drove the first horse-drawn streetcars in Oakland and then made a fortune in the heating oil business with acetylene gas machines for gaslights. Louis lived his entire life in the family mansion where he was born in north Oakland and later raised his own family including a son, Lundy, who became a well-known artist. His parents encouraged his talents, and at age fifteen, he enrolled at night in the California School of Arts and Crafts while attending... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (4)
All MuseumsBlanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103