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BJORN RYE
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Utah, he traveled widely, living in San Francisco, New York City, Athens, Munich, and London. After studying art history and creative writing at Columbia University, he published two novels and wrote art criticism for "Artforum" magazine. In 1989, he returned to the Santa Barbara area and began to paint landscapes so successfully that he had sell-out exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara in 1997 and 1998. Askart.comInsured $75,000, Offered $39,000
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| 9. Bjorn Rye 82" x 60", Santa Barbara Harbor, Oil on Canvas |
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| 10. Bjorn Rye 27" x 23", oil on canvas INSURED $22,000, OFFERED $7,000 SOLD |
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| 11. Bjorn Rye 20" x 16" Oil on Board INSURED $16,000, OFFERED $3750 |
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| 12. Bjorn Rye 12" x 10" Oil on Board Golden Light INSURED $1600, OFFERED $675 SOLD |
13. WILLIAM LOUIS OTTE Insured $12,000, Offered $5500
1871 - 1957
On December 6, 1871,William L. Otte was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. As a young man, Otte worked as a successful stockbroker in New York City while studying part-time at the New York School of Art under painter Robert Henri (1865-1929). When he decided to start a fulltime career as an artist in 1913, he moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Up to his death in 1957, he continued to paint landscapes of the surrounding area. Sullivan Goss Gallery
14. HENRI DE KRUIF Offered $225
Etcher, painter, lithographer. Born in Grand Rapids, Ml on Feb. 17, 1882. DeKruif began his art training at the AIC under Vanderpoel, the Holmes School of Illustration, and continued in NYC at the ASL under Frank V. DuMond, Beal, and Luis Mora. In 1903 he studied at the Hope College (Michigan) and was employed at Grand Rapids Advertising Company until 1907.
Moving to Los Angeles from the Midwest in 1911, he continued as a commercial artist with the Merril Advertising Company. During this period he studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright while experimenting with various modern art idioms. He was active in Laguna Beach and Los Angeles until his death in the latter on July 7, 1944.
Member: LAAA; Laguna Beach AA; Calif. WC Society; Chicago Society of Etchers; Calif. Art Club; Calif. PM; Calif. Society of Etchers; Group of Eight. Exh: LACMA, 1922, 1929 (solos); LA Public Library, 1923 (solo); Cannell & Chaffin Gallery (LA), 1924; Laguna Beach AA, 1924-35; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1925 (1st prize); Calif. PM, 1926 (bronze medal); Littles Gallery (LA), 1930; Stendahl Galleries (LA), 1936, 1939.
Collection: LACMA; San Diego Museum; Orange Co. (CA) Museum; Library of Congress; Beaumont (CA) Public Library (murals); LA Public Library. AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-41; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1918-1978; Ben; Fid; SCA; Art Digest, 8-1-1944 (obit); LA Times, 7-6-1944 (obit).
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| Henri Gilbert de Kruif etching California Coast 15" x 13 1/2" |
15. CLYDE SCOTT Insured $19,000, Offered $7500
A Southern California landscape artist, Clyde Eugene Scott was born in Bedford, Iowa and headed West in 1910, having studied in Boston with Richard Andrews and Charles Heil at the Boston Museum School and with E. Felton Brown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Until 1933, he worked for the Commercial Art Company in San Francisco and lived across the Bay in Mill Valley. Then he moved to Los Angeles and became a special effects artist at 20th Century Fox Studios until 1950 when he retired and devoted himself full time to painting desert landscapes.
He established his studio near Los Angeles at Chatsworth where landscape was often filmed for western movies. He took extensive painting trips into Arizona and Utah and throughout California and became active in the California Art Club, plein-air landscape painters as well as in arts organizations in Laguna Beach and Santa Monica and the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, which he served as President from 1938 to 1940. He was fascinated by natural forms and changing atmosphere, and these subjects are reflected in his many desert landscapes.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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| Clyde Scott Low Tide Morro Rock 25" x 21" Oil on Board |
16. WALLACE FISHER Insured $1200, Offered $575
Wallace R. Fisher was born in California in the thirties. From the earliest age, he studied American, European, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Jewish and Russian artists. Now, his own paintings have been displayed in Galleries across the states and sold worldwide.
Wallace Fisher's biography as an Early California Artist can be viewed and read in the Smithsonian Institution. He currently resides in the mountains of California. Much of the nature he has painted captured a glimpse of history as urban civilization has developed over so many of the beautiful scenes his state beheld. His work truly follows the impressionistic style of the Masters. There are over 4000 original paintings by Fisher in the hands of collectors and art appreciators.
Fisher was influenced by various techniques during the various periods of his life. He has painted abstract, modern, impressionism, traditional, western, still life, and floral. His mediums have ranged from oil, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and etching. He has been categorized with many of California's famous artists and is known internationally. His art has won many shows and awards in the West.
Fisher's most recent recognition for 2002 was in the 33rd annual art show held in the Fisk Auditorium of the San Bernardino County Museum. He won the Jurors' Choice Award for one of his snow scenes. ("Ode to Winter")
Wallace Fisher is a member of the OPA (Oil Painters of America), LPAPA (Laguna Plein Air Painters Association), and the CAC (California Art Club).
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| Wallace Fisher Sunset Eucalyptus Cambria Acryllic on Canvas 22 1/2" x 18 1/2" |
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