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from Auction House Records.
Happy Days, Calif. (Point Fermin, Palos Verdes)
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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These Notes from AskART represent the beginning of a possible future biography for this artist. Please click here if you wish to help in its development:
|  He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Modern Art Society, an important modernist endeavor. |
Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| A painter, Herbert (Bert) Cressey was born on a ranch near Compton,
California on June 10, 1883. Bert" Cressey studied at
University of Southern California under Wm Lees Judson, Art Students
League of Los Angeles under -Warren Hedges, National Academy of Design
under Robert Henri, and in Spain, England and France.
He painted and -maintained a studio on the family ranch in Compton
until 1920. He then built a studio- -home in Hollywood. At
the outbreak of WWII he began working in a movie studio where a
work-related accident was the cause of his death on Aug. -18, 1944.
An exponent of modern art, his style was broad and decorative.
The Cressey ranch was -given to the city of Compton and is now known as
Gonzales Park.
Exhibitions:
California Art Club, 1915-31; -Modern Art Society (LA), 1916; Artists
of So. Calif., San Diego FA Gallery, 1927; Painters & -Sculptors of
LA, 1932. &] SCA;
References:
AAA 1917-25; CA&A; PF; LA Times, 10-8-1944 (obit).
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