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  Harold Christopher Davies, “Pacific seascape”, Oil on canvas c. 1915

  HAROLD CHRISTOPHER DAVIES (1891 – 1976) USA

  Pacific seascape c.1915

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: HHG #4010, Hoover Gallery, 1681 Folson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (on wooden stretcher), the estate mark of the Harold Christopher Davies estate is on the reverse of the canvas

  Exhibited: Hoover Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1975

  For more information: Harold Christopher Davies 1891-1976: A Retrospective Exhibition (Stockton, CA: The Haggin Museum, 1982); Susan Landauer: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1996)p. 8;Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980: An Illustrated History (Berkeley, CA: University California Press, 1985)

  H: 16” x W: 20”

  Framed: H: 27 11/16” x W: 23 5/8”

  Born in Seattle, WA on May 26, 1891, the Davies family moved to Cherrydale, VA when Harold was an infant. Davies began his formal art education at the age of fourteen, enrolling in the Corcoran Art Institute in Washington, D.C.  Later he continued his studies at the San Francisco Institute of Art.

  The talent of Harold Christopher Davies was evident in his early California Impressionist landscapes such as this Pacific Ocean seascape which demonstrates his remarkable use of color and the bravura of his brushstrokes. An Abstract Expressionist, his later works are similar to those of De Kooning and Hans Hofmann. Harold Christopher Davies was a member of the Oakland Art League, the San Francisco Art Association and the Huntsville (Ala.) Art Association.

   After living in a variety of cities around the United States, Davies moved to Inverness, California in 1969 where he was free to devote all his time to his art.

   

  Exhibitions:

  San Francisco Art Association, 1921-1931

  Oakland Art Gallery, 1931

  Birmingham Museum, 1951

  Southampton Museum, 1959

  University of Long Island Museum, 1964

  Parrish Art Museum, 1964, 1966, 1967

  Hoover Gallery (San Francisco), 1975

  Fresno Art Center, 1976 (Solo)

  Haggin Museum, 1982

  Huntsville Museum, 1982

   

   

   

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  Otto Eckmann (attr.) Pair Of Hand Wrought Iron Floral Candlesticks c. 1900

  OTTO ECKMANN attr.  (1865-1902)  Germany

  Pair of candlesticks c. 1900

  Hand-wrought iron with floral and foliage design

  H: 12 ¼” x W: 8 ¼”

  Price: $7,475

  Otto Eckmann (19 November 1865 – 11 June 1902) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was a prominent member of the “floral” branch of Jugendstil. Otto Eckmann was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1865. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and Nuernberg and at the academy in Munich. In 1894, Eckmann gave up painting (and auctioned off his works) in order to concentrate on applied design. He began producing graphic work for the magazines Pan in 1895 and Jugend in 1896. He also designed book covers for the publishers Cotta, Diederichs, Scherl and Seemann, as well as the logo for the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. In 1897 he taught ornamental painting at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. In 1899, he designed the logo for the magazine Die Woche. From 1900 to 1902, Eckmann did graphic work for the Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft (AEG). During this time, he designed the fonts Eckmann (in 1900) and Fette Eckmann (in 1902), probably the most common Jugendstil fonts still in use today.