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Wall painter, Painter, b. 1905 - d. 1969

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  • Grace Richardson Clements (1905-1969) Warehouse District (Los Angeles) 28 x 34 1/4in overall: 37 x 43in
    Nov. 19, 2018

    Grace Richardson Clements (1905-1969) Warehouse District (Los Angeles) 28 x 34 1/4in overall: 37 x 43in

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    Grace Richardson Clements (1905-1969) Warehouse District (Los Angeles) signed and dated 'Clements 31' (lower right)oil on canvas28 x 34 1/4inoverall: 37 x 43inPainted in 1931 Provenance: H.A. Moe, Los Angeles, California.The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.Private collection, Southern California.Although Grace Clements would focus her formidable artistic and literary intentions on post surrealism or new classicism later in her career, her work in the 1930s was largely architectural in subject matter. Warehouse district is a dynamic example of the artists structural collage style, where overlapping buildings become layers of color, shape and pattern. Though one could recognize telephone poles, trucks, fence posts and windows in the work, these elements yield to the abstract relationship of planes in space. In the book Independent Spirits, Ilene Susan Fort writes "Highly indebted to cubism, [Clements] disassembled walls of buildings, bridges and other man-made objects and re-combined them into synthetic collage arrangements". Fort goes on to quote the artist from a show in 1944: "I am concerned with relationships because it is through relationships that we know reality....A painting must contain its own order, hence its own reality....The laws of the macrocosm are equally important in the microcosm. Our concept of the universe is necessarily abstract; our understanding of its order is likewise abstract".

    Bonhams
  • Grace Richardson Clements (American, 1905-1969) Yard sale, 1935 36 x 30in
    Aug. 09, 2011

    Grace Richardson Clements (American, 1905-1969) Yard sale, 1935 36 x 30in

    Est: $4,000 - $6,000

    Yard sale, 1935 signed and dated 'Clements - 35' (lower left) oil on canvas 36 x 30in overall: 44 x 38in

    Bonhams
  • Grace Waldo Clements (American, 1905-1969) Architecture, 1934-35 51 x 36in
    Nov. 23, 2010

    Grace Waldo Clements (American, 1905-1969) Architecture, 1934-35 51 x 36in

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    Architecture, 1934-35 signed and dated 'Clements 1934-35' (lower left) and signed, titled and dated 'Jan 1934' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 51 x 36in

    Bonhams
  • Grace Clements View of Harbor Watercolor
    Dec. 19, 2004

    Grace Clements View of Harbor Watercolor

    Est: $700 - $1,000

    Grace Richardson Clements American, 1905-1969 A View of a Harbor signed and dated l/r: Clements 30 pencil and watercolor on paper Sight: 11 3/4 x 18 inches ( 29.8 x 45.7 cm )

    Bonhams
  • Grace Clements View of Harbor Watercolor
    Sep. 26, 2004

    Grace Clements View of Harbor Watercolor

    Est: $700 - $1,000

    Grace Richardson Clements American, 1905-1969 A View of a Harbor signed and dated l/r: Clements 30 pencil and watercolor on paper Sight: 11 3/4 x 18 inches ( 29.8 x 45.7 cm )

    Bonhams
  • Grace Rivet Clements (American, 1905-1969), "Tea Lady", c.1948; oil/canvas, 24" x 20", signed and
    Dec. 08, 2002

    Grace Rivet Clements (American, 1905-1969), "Tea Lady", c.1948; oil/canvas, 24" x 20", signed and

    Est: $800 - $1,200

    dated. Oakland, CA painter. Clements studied with K.H. Miller and B. Robinson in New York. She worked as a WPA printmaker in the 1930s, while living in California. She exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Oakland Art Gallery, Worlds Fair New York (1939), and the San Francisco Museum of Art (Post-Surrealists, 1935). Her work is in the collections of the John Reed Club (Hollywood), Oakland Museum, and Mills College.

    Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
  • GRACE CLEMENTS (1905-1969)
    Nov. 20, 2002

    GRACE CLEMENTS (1905-1969)

    Est: $8,000 - $12,000

    Warehouse District signed and dated 'Clements 31' (lower right)--signed again and inscribed with title on the stretcher oil on canvas 281/4 x 341/4 in. (71.8 x 87 cm.) PROVENANCE H.A. Moe, Los Angeles, California. EXHIBITION San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1932 NOTES Although Grace Clements would focus her formidable artistic and literary intentions on Post-Surrealism or New Classicism later in her career, her work in the 1930's was largely architectural in subject matter. Warehouse District is a dynamic example the artist's structural collage style, where overlapping buildings become layers of color, shape and pattern. Though one can recognize telephone poles, trucks, fence posts and windows in the work, these elements yield to the abstract relationship of planes in space. (Ilene Susan Fort, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945, Berkeley, California, 1995, p. 98) "Highly indebted to Cubism, [Clements] disassembled walls of buildings, bridges and other manmade objects and re-combined them into synthetic collage arrangements." ( Independent Spirits, p. 98) Clements wrote about her work, "I am concerned with relationships because it is through relationships that we know reality....A painting must contain its own order, hence its own reality....The laws of the macrocosm are equally important in the microcosm. Our concept of the universe is necessarily abstract; our understanding of its order is likewise abstract." (as quoted in Independent Spirits, p. 98).

    Christie's
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