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John
Dominique (1893-1994)
Marked:
Signed Dominique and what appears to the year of 1951. There is
also an inkstamp on the reverse of John A. Dominique, Ojai, California,
as well as estate inventory number of 3358100CB, which is likely
from the Kerwin Gallery of Burlingame.
Condition:
The subject is in very nice condition with no visible damage. Light
wear and nicks to the frame, which is probably contemporary. I have
not removed the painting from the frame.
Dimensions:
The board meaures 8 by 10 inches, where as the frame's exterior
measurements are approximately 13 by 15 inches.
Notes:
Here is a portion of his biography by Charlotte Berney, John August
Dominique was born in Viserum, Sweden on October 1, 1893, of a family
line with a French ancestor, hence the French name. At age 7, his
family immigrated to the United States, settling in a farming area
near Portland, Oregon. A plant nursery man in Sweden, John's father
worked as a florist in Portland and later became a landscape architect.
Though John
was to use the skills learned from his father in caring for plants
and the land, his early inclination was toward art. An interest
in drawing as a youngster led him to study cartooning and he began
supplying cartoons to local newspapers. In 1913, with a growing
interest, John enrolled in the School of the Portland Art Association,
where, according to the art training of the day, he drew from casts
of classical sculptures.
John decided
to make art his life's work and in December of 1914, left Oregon
for San Francisco. Living in Berkeley where his sister was attending
school, he took classes at the California Art School of Arts and
Crafts, where he studied with early California painter Perham Wilhelm
Nahl and went to lectures by artist/art historian Eugen Neuhaus.
Following
his stay in Berkeley, Dominique crossed the Bay and enrolled at
the California School of Design of the San Francisco Institute of
Art (since 1961 called the San Francisco Art Institute), where he
would study for two years.
Dominique
had arrived in San Francisco at a propitious time. Having recovered
from the disastrous 1906 earthquake, the city was ready, in 1915,
to proclaim its resurgence with a world's fair, the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition. In an age when printed information was
not omnipresent, fairs were a dramatic means of exposure to other
ways of thinking and seeing. The Fine Arts Exposition, with works
by Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka and the Italian Futurists,
greatly impressed Dominique and his fellow art students who attended
the show every weekend.
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