Description: Landscape, signed lower right: SC Gile, oil on canvas, laid on board.
Dimensions: 8'' H x 14'', frame: 13 1/2" x 19 1/2".
Artist or Maker: Selden Connor Gile (1877-1947 Belvedere, CA)
Medium: oil on canvas, laid on board.
Condition Report: Generally good condition. Blacklight: No evidence of restoration under blacklight.
Provenance: Estate of Connecticut.


Biography from the Archives of askART

Biography photo for Selden Connor Gile
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 associated with Gile in this rebellion were Maurice Logan, William Clapp, Bernard von Eichman, August Gay, and Louis Siegriest.

Gile was born in Stow, Maine, to parents from Salem, England, and was named for Seldon Connor, Governor of Maine. The family lived on a farm, but from childhood, he was regarded as different from his boisterous, carousing brothers because of his artistic talents and apparent refinement. He completed high school in 1894 in Fryeburg and then lived with his brother Frank in Portland, Maine, where he attended Shaw's Business College. Frank was head chef at the landmark Lafayette Hotel in Portland and taught Gile cooking and convivial hosting, qualities that would later serve him well in California among his artist colleagues.

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Generally good condition. Blacklight: No evidence of restoration under blacklight.