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Birth
1877 (Stow, Maine)
Death
1947 (Belvedere, California)
Lived/Active
California
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modernist landscape, marine and figure painting
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Categories of Interest
Fauves/Fauvism
Impressionists Pre 1940
Society of Six
Taos Pre 1940
California Painters
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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 assoc (showing 500 of 7715 characters). |
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