CHARLES A. FRIES (1854-1940)
Born in Ohio, painter and lithographer Charles Fries achieved great success and fame as a well-published illustrator and portraitist in NYC, before moving with his family to Southern California and settling in San Diego in 1896. The "Dean of San Diego Painters", Fries achieved great success and fame as a painter of atmospheric desert and back country landscapes.
SAN DIEGO BAY -- 1898
Oil on finely-woven canvas, 9 x 17"
Signed lower right: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso: #1442 / S. D. Bay / painted in 1898 / [code]
Date painted: circa 1898
SAN DIEGO BAY FROM POINT LOMA -- circa 1898
Oil on finely-woven canvas, 10 x 20"
Signed and dated lower right: C. A. Fries 1898
Inscribed verso:
Custom frame: coming
IN BALBOA PARK
Oil on board, 20 x 16"
Signed lower right: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso: #732/ In Balboa Park/ 16 x 20 / [price code]
Date painted: circa 1910
Custom frame: coming
ROSES IN BASIN
Oil on canvas, ca 10 x 14"
Signed lower left: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso:
Date painted: circa 1898
Original Fries-made frame, newly glided:
EDGE OF THE GROVE
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20"
Signed lower left: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso:
Date painted: 19xx
CUYAMACA MOUNTAIN -- GILMORE'S POINT
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30"
Signed lower right: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso: Cuyamaca Mountain / #1756 / 1931 / [code]
Date painted: 1931
JUNIPERS
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14"
Signed and dated lower right: C. A. Fries / 26
Inscribed verso:
Date painted: 1926
Original Fries-made frame, newly glided:
WAITING
Oil on canvas, ca 8 x 8"
Signed lower left: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso:
Date painted: 1926
BORREGO DESERT
Oil on canvas, 20" x 30"
Signed lower right: C. A. Fries
Date: circa 1930
DESERT PALMS
Oil on canvas, laid on board, ca 9.25" x 11.5"
Signed lower left: C. A. Fries
Date: circa 1933
IN PALM CANYON
Oil on canvas, 14" x 16"
Signed lower right: C. A. Fries
Date: July 1933
Inscribed verso: Alice F. King Eleven Years Old / July 23 1933 / In Palm Canyon / #1298 / [price code] / 14 x 16
MOUNTAIN RANCH NEAR MUZZEY GRADE
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24"
Signed lower right: C.A. Fries
Inscribed verso: #1408/A Mountain Ranch Near Muzzey Grade/ Feb 1930
THE ABANDONED ROAD
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24"
Signed lower left: C.A. Fries
Inscribed verso: The Abandoned Road / #1472 / May 1931 / 1 Mile East of Muzzy Grade / [price code]
SUN AND FOG CONFLICTING
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14"
Signed lower left: C.A. Fries
Inscribed verso: Sun and Fog Conflicting / #1386 / 10 x 14 / [price code] / Sept 1929 / Alice Fries King / Lower Calif.
Original Fries-made frame, newly watergilded
WIND AND SEA
Oil on canvas, 11 x 15"
Signed lower left: C.A. Fries
Inscribed verso: #1569 / Wind and Sea / 11 x 15 / [price code] / Oct 1934
AWAKENING EARLY MORN
Oil on canvas, 11-1/2 x 15-1/2"
Signed lower left: C. A. Fries
Inscribed verso: Awakening - Early Morn / #1314 / Painted Canyon / 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 / [price code]
Date: circa 1933
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