WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum

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Sawing Wood
Clayton Price (1874 - 1950)
oil on canvas, circa 1940
34 x 44 inches

Clayton Price was born in Bedford, Iowa, lived on a ranch in Wyoming,and studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Art for a year. Early in his career he painted western scenes as he worked on ranches in Canada and Wyoming. He discovered Modernism in 1915, after which he moved to Monterey, California and opened a studio.

He moved to Oregon in 1929, where he worked for the Portland WPA easel program. He lived and worked as a painter and illustrator in Portland until he died.

Price applied paint with a pallette knife to create the angular planes in this painting.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
photograph by Gary Andrashko
ISM Accession #: 1943.16/910.6

<i>Sawing Wood</i><br>Clayton Price (1874 - 1950)

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