| "Rough
Passage" Gouache - 22" x 30" "1948" Signed, lower right |
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| CECIL CROSLEY BELL (1906-1970) | ||
| Born July 15, 1906 in
Seattle, Washington, Bell was a descendant of John Langdon Bell of Ellsworth, Kansas, a
Union Soldier who, after the war, resettled in Bellingham, in Northwest Washington State. Bell’s father was department manager for Schwabacher and Sons Hardware in Seattle until his death. At the age of 13, Bell moved to Tacoma with his family where he was an artist even before graduating from High School. He studied in Chicago, before returning to Tacoma and ultimately left the West Coast for New York City in 1930. Bell had a home on Staten Island as well as a summer home in Rutland, Vermont where he died. He studied at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Student’s League of New York and was known in the art community as a "Social Realist". He exhibited at The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences; The Museum of the City of New York; The Tacoma Art Museum; The South Street Seaport Museum; The Society of Independent Artists; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The National Academy of Design; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . |
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