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  Oscar B. Erickson, “Early Morning Rockport”, Oil on canvas c. 1940

  OSCAR B. ERICKSON (1883 – 1970) American

  Early Morning Rockport c. 1940

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: Original exhibition label verso: THE NORTHWEST ART LEAGUE,

  INC., Oscar B. Erickson, Early Morning Rockport, oil

  For brief bibliographical listing see: Who Was Who in American Art,

  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 189.

  Canvas (sight): H: 21” x W: 23”

  Frame: H: 26 1/2” x W: 28 1/2”

  Oscar Erickson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied painting and printmaking at the Milwaukee Art League and later at the Herron Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Academy of the Fine Arts, the Hoosier Salon from 1927 to 1942, the Illinois State Museum, and the Norwegian Club.

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  Walter Paul Suter, American Art Deco glazed pottery sculpture 1929

  WALTER PAUL SUTER USA

  AMERICAN ENCAUSTING TILING CO. New York, NY

  Art Deco Seated Female Figure with Draped Skirt and Holding an Art Deco Vase 1929

  Hand-modeled and molded cream glazed earthenware figure with gold and silver details on a separate, but matching black glazed earthenware base.

  Signed: SUTER ‘29 (under glaze on back right hand corner)

  H: 13″ x D: 7 1/2″ x W: 9″

  Price: $14,500

  Walter Paul Suter was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1902 and studied there at the School of Fine and Applied Arts. He moved to the United States in 1924 and settled in New York. He was a member of the American Ceramic Society, as well as the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors & Architects. In 1932 Suter won first prize in the Robineau Member Exhibition in Syracuse.   He was a member of the American Encaustic Tiling Company in NYC.

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  Otis Oldfield, Water Pipes and Shadows, Oil on Canvas c. 1920

  OTIS OLDFIELD (1890-1969) USA

  “Water pipes and shadows” c. 1920

  Oil on canvas, walnut frame

  Signed: Otis Oldfield (lower left)

  For more information see: Otis Oldfield 1890-1990, Centennial retrospective exhibition (San Francisco, CA: Inkwell Publishing, 1990).

  Painting: H: 16 1/8” x W: 13”
  Framed: H: 28 ¼” x W: 25 1/8”

  Price: $42,500
  ***The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owns a famous Gelatin silver print photograph by Morton Schamberg from 1916 entitled “God”. This image is akin to Duchamp’s “Fountain” and is an iconic Dadaist assemblage of plumbing pipes mounted on a miter box. The “Water Pipes and Shadows” painting by Otis Oldfield similarly brings a certain animation and personality to an under sink composition of mundane drain pipes in a sophisticated “Rayonist” or “Cubist” stylization. Otis Oldfield was born in Sacramento, California in 1890. He enrolled in the Best Art School in San Francisco in 1909 and continued his studies at the Academie Julian in Paris. Returning to the U.S., Oldfield settled briefly Sacramento before returning to San Francisco to accept a post as a teacher at the California School of Fine Art. Oldfield developed a bold modernist style, which caused some controversy among critics covering his exhibits. In 1936 Oldfield was one of a group of San Francisco artists chosen for a WPA project to paint murals in San Francisco’s Coit Tower. Following WW II, Oldfield taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He died in San Francisco in 1969.

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  Jean Marion Gates Hall, “Napa Valley” Oil on canvas 1940

  JEAN MARION GATES HALL (1911-2001) USA

  Napa Valley 1940

  Oil on canvas, original wood frame

  Signed: with her monogram initials JGH (lower right)
  Marked on back: Jean Gates Hall, June 18, 1940, Napa Valley

  Canvas: H: 14″ x W: 17 1/4″
  Framed: H: 17 1/2″ x W: 20 1/2″

  Price: $4,250

  Born in Memphis, TN on May 19, 1911.  Jean Gates studied at the Cummings School of Art in Des Moines.  At age 14 she moved to Los Angeles with her family.  There she continued at the Chouinard Art School while working for Warner Bros, Walt Disney, and Mintz Studios.  Upon moving to San Francisco, she married writer James D. Hall in 1938.  Her illustrations were used in her husband’s children’s books.  She established a studio in the “Monkey Block” (now the Transamerica Pyramid) and was active in the local art scene.  She later earned her B.A. degree at San Jose State University (1955) and M.A. degree at UC Davis (1966).   Working in oil and watercolor, her painting style and subject matter evolved with the years from descriptive realism to linear pictures, and finally an entirely new medium called Magpage.  Mrs. Hall was a resident of Oakland in the 1980s and died in Cedar Ridge, CA on June 23, 2001.

  Exhibitions:  Iowa State Fair, 1926; California State Fair, 1937; GGIE, 1939;  Paul Elder Gallery (SF), 1939 (solo); NMAA, 1941; SFMA, 1942 (solo); De Young Museum, 1944 (solo); California WC Society, 1945-53; UC Davis, 1946, 1965 (solos); Kingsley Art Club (Sacramento), 1965.