A Resource for Modernist, Vintage, Antique & Contemporary Art & Objects
Our fine art collection is comprised of over 8,000 works of rediscovered, historically significant and contemporary artists. It reflects the major styles and movements of the 20th Century. Every collection is researched, reconditioned and catalogued at our Salon in San Francisco.
Clyde Follett Seavey was born on June 23, 1904 in Sacramento where his father was noted city official. Seavey studied at UC Berkely where he won a scholarship to the California College of Arts & Crafts. After graduating from the CCAC in Oakland, he opened a commercial art company in San Francisco with artists Louis Sawl and Paul Nyland which lasted 50 years. Seavey also made his living as a commercial artist for magazines such as The American Weekly. His real passion can be seen throughout his deeply personal work. Clyde’s detailed sketchbooks and paintings describe the story of his early domestic life at Laguna and California Streets in the 1930s-50s. In addition to his searing self-portraits, Clyde often depicted Adele (his wife), Clyde Jr. (their only child), and family friends, with an emotive and romantic eye. Adele de Izcue (a provocative Peruvian beauty) passed away a decade after Clyde in 2001.
Clyde showed his work at Gilbert Galleries on Sutter Street in 1966 and is known to have had several other shows in galleries and museums throughout California. He is particularly regarded for his paintings of San Francisco’s old mansions and Victorians, often depicted at night or twilight. The Seavey family was part of a vibrant international community of nouveaux bourgeois who gathered in their family's salon. Their sprawling and dramatic four-story home in Pacific Heights served as the private gallery for the artist’s many portraits and San Francisco city scenes. Unfortunately, the house was torn down more than three decades ago. Clyde Follett Seavey’s son, Clyde I. Seavey Jr., was also an artist and created a series of haunting abstract figurative pieces in the 1960s. In 1969 Clyde Jr. took his own life in their family home. During his artistic career Seavey Sr. was a member of the Artists Club, Artists & Art Directors Club, and Advertising Club all in San Francisco.
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