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Selden Connor Gile
American painter (1877–1947)
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Selden Connor Gile in his twenties. | |
| Born | (1877-03-20)March 20, 1877 Stow, Maine |
| Died | June 8, 1947(1947-06-08) (aged 70) San Rafael, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Selden Connor Gile (20 March 1877 – 8 June 1947) was an American painter who was mainly active in northern California between the early-1910s and the mid-1930s.
He was the founder and leader of the Society of Six, a Bay Area group of artists known for their plein-air paintings and rich use of color, a quality that would later figure into the work of Bay Area figurative expressionists.[1]
Style
Though self-taught as a painter,[2] Gile was most influenced in this exuberant use of color by the Fauves as well as the early French Impressionist paintings he saw at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915.[3][4] It was those paintings