MCM John Checkley Oil on Canvas, Hyde Street Cable Car, San Francisco, C.1960's

Description

Picture this quintessential San Francisco MCM artwork hanging on your wall. It is an oil painting on canvas board by … more Picture this quintessential San Francisco MCM artwork hanging on your wall. It is an oil painting on canvas board by noted New Zealand / American artist John Leonard Checkley (1922-1991.) It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The foreground depicts the Hyde Street cable car in San Francisco, with view of Alcatraz and the bay in the background. The painting itself measures 10 inches x 8 inches and is in excellent original condition. The 18.5 inches x 16.5 inches original frame is of the period and has some dings as shown in the photos.

From the artist's bio pasted on the back of the frame, date unknown:

"New Zealander John Checkley, a San Franciscan since 1955, enjoys a well-deserved reputation for his charming watercolors which capture the ever-changing moods of the Bay Area. Now he has developed a unique style in acrylics, gaining immediate recognition for himse!f and winning an enthusiastic following in art circles across the nation.

Checkley completed his schooling ir New Zealand's St. Andrews College and went on to major in art at the University of NewZealand. He entered the advertising profession only to have his career interrupted by three years of military service in the Pacific area during World War Il.
Following the conflict, heconcentrated on graphic arts. His career led him to the United States in 1948 where he joined Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, one of the world’s great advertising agencies, in NewYork City. Checkley held a successful series of one-man shows in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1955. In the City by the Bay, he has appeared on KQED, the nation’s most honored educational television station, and he has conducted classes in painting.
Checkleys hang in numerous private collections and are prominently displayed in the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society and in the Bank of New York.

A realist by nature, Checkley interprets the many faces of San Francisco as he sees them. His sketching trips have taken him to Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Tahiti, and to the nations of Europe.

Checkley lives in Greenbrae, California, withhig wife, two children and a cat. Most of his painting is done on a houseboat - a converted World War II landing craft moored in Sausalito."

This painting ships from Sebastopol, California. It will be carefully packed and shipped insured with adult signature required. less