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Frederick Kress California Artist Mock Frame

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
Frederick Kress California Artist Mock Frame
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Was used by Kress to Mock Frame all of his stretched canvases. Used from the 1920s until his death. Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Jan. 7, 1888, the son of artist Carl Victor Kress. Fred Kress spent his childhood in Pittsburgh and high school years in Independence, MO. His arrival with his family in San Francisco was a few months before the disaster of 1906. While working with his father as a sign and scenery painter, he studied at the Institute of Art. During his five years at that school he also studied privately with local artists Maynard Dixon, C. Chapel Judson, and Emil Grebs. In 1912 Kress began making painting excursions into the Big Sur area, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and Marin County when not working in the paint department of Foster & Kleiser (billboards), a position he held for 42 years. He exhibited with the San Francisco Art Ass'n until 1920 and after that time painted strictly for pleasure and was not known to have exhibited or sold any of his paintings. A resident of San Francisco until 1962, his last years were spent in Santa Rosa, CA where he died on Aug. 10, 1970. Using a bright palette, he painted small, realistic landscapes of northern California. Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1913-16.