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"Industrial, " Collection of Ironworker Paintings and Drawings by Garth, 1920s
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This remarkable ensemble of paintings, studies and prints, collected together as a kind of scrapbook page by John Garth, celebrates the American ironworker. It includes no fewer than seven works, most consisting of gouache over printed images, and with fascinating annotations regarding the owner or commissioner of each piece. An article from the March 9, 1925 issue of the "Illustrated Daily Herald," which illustrates an oil painting related to one of these images, notes that "John Garth, youthful painter of San Francisco, who chose to paint five years without offering his work to the public and who recently held his first show at Gump's, combines with his admirable technic and feeling for color an understanding of life in many aspects." Garth was a giant among artists in San Francisco for many years, and served as Mural Director for the WPA Art Project there in the 1930s. He painted murals for the Sir Francis Drake Hotel and the University of California, among other clients, and also designed mosaic murals such as the famous "World Sources of Food" located in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco. At one point he kept a studio at the Fairmount Hotel Studios, at the rear side of the famous hotel, and at other points a studio at the Artists Building a few blocks away, at 535 Sacramento Street. This ensemble comes from Garth's descendants.
- Creator:John Garth (Painter)
- Dimensions:Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1920s
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- Seller Location:Philadelphia, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU865111485183
John Garth
John Garth grew up in Topeka, Kansas and attended Washburn University, Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from Yale University in 1914. He studied at the Arts Student League and in Europe from 1914–15, including being in Berlin, working with Renoyitski and Conrad Fehrand. Garth taught at the Roberts college in Constantinople for eight months, returned briefly to Topeka and then was in Hawaii in 1916. He served in World War I, then settled in San Francisco, California. Garth temporarily was art director of the Pacific Railways Advertising Company and from 1920–35 conducted the Garth School of Art.
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