M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES

 

FREMONT F. ELLIS

American (New Mexico / California) 1897-1985

 

 

"PLACITA ALLEGRE"
Oil on canvas
 Signed lower left: FREMONT F. ELLIS

Provenance: Gift from the artist to the parents of the present owner

 

 Museums: 17, including The White House; UCLA Hammer Museum; Stark Museum of Art; Addison Gallery of American Art;

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Museum of New Mexico; Oklahoma City Museum of Art

 

Books: 56 including A Nation's Pride, Art in the White House, William Kloss;

Masterpieces of the American West - Selections from the Anschutz Collection , Elizabeth Cunningham

 

Periodicals: 9, Southwest Art (7); American Art Review (2)

 

 Image size: 15-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches

 

Price: Please Inquire

 

#5487

 

We welcome and encourage all inquiries.  We will make every attempt to answer any questions you might have.

 

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ELLIS, Fremont F. (1897-1985)

 

Birth place: Virginia City, MT

 

Death place: Virginia City

 

Addresses: Santa Fe, New Mexico/Los Angeles in 1976

 

Profession: Landscape painter, graphic artist, etcher, teacher

 

Studied: mainly self-taught; Art Students League, 1915 (three months)

 

Exhibited: Society of Independent Artists, 1920; California Art Club, 1921; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1922 (solo),

1924 (Henry E Huntington Award); Oakland Art Gallery, 1950 (prize),1953 (medal); Springville (UT) Museum (When Evening, Comes

Navajo Girls, purchase prize)

 

Member: Santa Fe Painters & Sculptors; Los Cinco Pintores, 1921-26 (founder).

 

Work: El Paso (TX) Museum; Museum New Mexico, Santa Fe; Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History, Tulsa, OK;

Art Institute, Lubbock, TX; University of California, Los Angeles. Commissions: S. S. America (mural).

 

Comments: Went to optometry school but failed in business. He became a fulltime painter at age 20 and went to Santa Fe in 1919, but

moved back to Southern California. He soon returned to New Mexico and worked as a sign painter and photographer. He created an artists'

colony in Santa Fe along with Bakos, Mruck, Nash and Shuster.

 

Sources: WW73; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 168; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 156.

This biography is drawn from the 'Who Was Who in American Art' , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

 

Museums:

Stark Museum of Art

Addison Gallery of American Art

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Desert Caballeros Western Museum

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

El Paso Museum of Art

Gilcrease Museum

Great Plains Art Museum

Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico

Museum of New Mexico

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Sangre De Cristo Arts Center

Springville Museum of Art

The White House

UCLA Hammer Museum

 

 

For information, call (901) 761-1163 or (901) 683-4668 or email mfcreech@bellsouth.net 

 

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