Society of Six: Selden Connor Gile (American, 1877-1947)

Lucas Valley, 1920

Cows and Pasture 

Main Street, Tiburon, with boats, circa 1928

Hay field, sunset, 1928

Gypsy Train, circa 1935

Marsh land

Wharf buildings

Stinson Beach

Selden Connor Gile (20 March 1877 – 8 June 1947) was an American painter who was mainly active in northern California between the early-1910s and the mid-1930s. He was the founder and leader of the Society of Six, a Bay Area group of artists known for their plein-air paintings and rich use of color, a quality that would later figure into the work of Bay Area figurative expressionists.

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The Society of Six

Maurice Logan

Maurice Logan - San Francisco ferry dock and city skyline.22.75” x 35.75”, Oil on Canvas

Maurice Logan - A Harbor Scene Sight. Watercolor on paper, 13 x 18 in

Maurice Logan

Maurice Logan - The Chicken House. Watercolor. 20 x 26 in

The Society of Six was a group of artists who painted outdoors, socialized, and exhibited together in and around Oakland, California in the 1910s and 1920s. They included Selden Gile, August Gay, Maurice Logan, Louis Siegriest, Bernard von Eichman, and William Clapp. They were somewhat isolated from the artistic mainstream of the San Francisco Bay Area at the time, and painted in more avant-garde styles than most of their peers, especially after being inspired by modern trends represented in the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915.

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August Gay

August Gay - Sunset Steeple, Montecito

August Gay - The Pier

William Clapp

William Clapp - In the Sun, Cuba