Clayton Sumner Price
Clayton Sumner "C. S." Price (1874 – 1950) was an American expressionist painter from Oregon.[1]
Price was born in 1874 near Bedford, Iowa, and raised on farms and ranches there and in Wyoming and Alberta, Canada.[1] In 1905, a local rancher loaned Price money so he could attend the St. Louis Museum School of Fine Arts.[1] Price attended the school during the 1905–1906 academic year; it would be his only formal training.[1] In 1909, Price moved to Portland, Oregon to work as an illustrator for Pacific Monthly magazine.[1] Price's illustrations of the magazine's Western stories were reminiscent of the work of Charles Marion Russell.[1] Price left Portland in 1910, painting and working for room and board on the farms and ranches of his siblings in British Columbia and California for the next eight years.[1] Price moved to Monterey, California in 1918.[1] Price returned to Portland in 1929.[1] During the 1930s, Price completed a series of large paintings as part of the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project.[1] These works currently are displayed in Timberline Lodge, the Multnomah County Library, Pendleton High School, and the Portland Art Museum.[1] He died on May 1, 1950.[1]
Style and collections
His style grew throughout his life, moving through impressionism to expressionism.[1] According to The Oregon Encyclopedia: "C.S. Price may be Oregon's most important and influential painter...[He] was nationally known in the 1940s."
Price's work can be found in the Northwest Collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon.[2]
Further reading
- The Life and Art of C. S. Price, by Patrick J. Leach and Frances Price Cook
- The Pioneering Price Family: As Told To His Niece, Frances Price Cook. by Maurice S. Price
References
External links
- Reminiscences by C. S. Price's niece Frances Price Cook from the Portland Art Museum
- Koffman, Rebecca (February 1, 2013). "Oregon Artist C. S. Price's Niece Pens Book About His Life and Art". The Oregonian.
- C. S. Price in Portland Art Museum online collections
- Ellen McFadden: C. S. Price and My Art Student Days