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William Gaw Exhibited Watercolor browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Paintings: Pre 1940: item # 556632 Please refer to our stock # 101 when inquiring.
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How often do you find paintings with museum labels on them?!!! Rarely! Exhibited paintings represent the artists best work!!These are the paintings everyone wants! Adding to the value of this painting is the original exhibtion label!
Landscape painter William Alexander Gaw was born in San Francisco, California in 1891. His father, Hugh Gaw, was also an artist, a watercolorist. With an early interest in art, Gaw enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute as a youth. There he studied under James Martin Griffin, a landscape painter. Gaw exhibited his work in the San Francisco area in 1912 before moving to Berkeley by 1923. He spent the rest of his life there and painted many landscapes inspired by his local surroundings. Later in his career Gaw lectured on the science of color and technique. He was known to have painted using bright colors and experimented in both Cubist and Post-Impressionist art forms. Gaw was also a teacher in the 1930's at the California School of Fine Art. Later he served as Chairman of the Art department at Mills College in Oakland, California between 1942 and 1957. Throughout his life Gaw actively exhibited at museums and Galleries such as The Corcoran Gallery (1940's), J.B. Speed Museum of Art (1948), and The California Palace of Legion of Honor in the years; 1932,1945,1946,1949. He died in Berkeley in 1973. Solo Exhibitions: Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco Selected Group Exhibitions: 1939 Worlds Fair, NYC, 60th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1940; 61st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1941; 62nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1942; 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; First Spring Annual Exhibition, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1946; Third Annual Exhibition of Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1949; Fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1952; The Oakland Museum, California. A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950; 1973. Literature: Edan Hughes, Artists in California 1786-1940. How often do you find paintings with museum labels on them?!!! Rarely! Exhibited paintings represent the artists best work!!These are the paintings everyone wants! Adding to the value of this painting is the original exhibtion label! Medium: Watercolor on paper, Dimensions: 12 x 16 inches. Signed: Lower right Date of Creation: Circa 1939 Provenance: Exhibited in 1946 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The estate of William Gaw Condition: Very Good, there is very minor foxing in the paper. Framed with acid free matting (16 x 20 inches) |
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