Chaffey Community Art Association
Museum of Art
THE BARBARA LINE COLLECTION
Nucleus of the Chaffey Community Art Association Permanent Collection of
fine paintings was the Barbara Line Collection. This was a succession of
fine paintings donated by Francis and Helen Line, beginning in 1941, as a
memorial to their lovely young daughter.
Iron Mountain, Clyde Scott, 1941
Invading Shadows (Iron Mountain)
Signed “Clyde Scott’ lower left
Oil
30” x 40”
circa 1941
1941 Barbara Line Memorial purchase
CLYDE EUGENE SCOTT 1884-1959
A significant Southern California landscape artist, he was born in Bedford, Iowa and headed West in 1910, having been an art student in Boston.
Until 1933, he worked for the Commercial Art Company in San Francisco and lived across the Bay in Mill Valley. Then he moved to Los Angeles and became a special effects artist at 20th Century Fox Studios until 1950 when he retired and devoted himself full time to painting desert landscapes.
He established his studio near Los Angeles at Chatsworth where landscape was often filmed for western movies. He took extensive painting trips into Arizona and Utah and throughout California and became active in the California Art Club, plein-air landscape painters as well as in arts organizations in Laguna Beach and Santa Monica, and the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, which he served as President from 1938 to 1940. He was fascinated by natural forms and changing atmosphere, and these subjects are reflected in his many desert landscapes.
Before moving West, he had studied in Boston with Richard Andrews and Charles Heil at the Boston Museum School and with E. Felton Brown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In August and September, 1999, a special exhibition of his work was held at William Karges Fine Art gallery in Carmel, California.
(Biographical
material courtesy of AskART.com)
The nine paintings of the Barbara Line Collection are:
Desert River, Conrad Buff, 1941.
Blue House, Thomas Craig, 1941.
Storm at Sequoia, Emil Kosa, Jr., 1941.
Mineral King, Paul Lauritz, 1941.
After the Sing, Marjorie Reed Lindgren, 1941.
Iron Mountain, Clyde Scott, 1941.
Location (map):
THE J. FILIPPI WINERY, North Wing
12467 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91739
Mailing Address:
Chaffey Community Art Association Museum of Art
P.O. Box 3902, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91729
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