Maurice Auguste Del Mue (1875 - 1955) France
Oil on Canvas
Measure 10"in H x 14"in W and 13 1/2"in H x 17 1/2"in W with frame

Known for: Landscape, still life, portrait painting
Biography: Painter, illustrator, muralist. Born in Paris, France on November 24, 1875. About 1880 Del Mue moved with his family to San Francisco where he later studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Mathews and Joullin. In the late 1890s he returned to Paris for further study under Gerome at Ecole des Beaux Arts. Upon returning to San Francisco, he established a studio and began receiving favorable reviews for his paintings by the local press. In 1902 he joined fellow artists Piazzoni, Putnam, C. P. Neilson, W. H. Bull, M. Sandona, and Blendon Campbell in forming the California Society of Artists as a protest to the conservative attitudes of the San Francisco Art Assosciation. During the 1920s Del Mue was a staff artist for the San Francisco Chronicle and later worked for Foster & Kleiser (billboards). His commercial art includes many prominent logos which are still in use (Hills Brothers Coffee, Schillings Coffee, Southern Pacific Railroad, and others). As early as 1933 he maintained an art studio in the small town of Forest Knolls in Marin County. Painting in a style that evolved from the Post-Impressionists, Del Mué was motivated by color and often boasted that he had his own blue. Best known for his landscapes, many of the High Sierra, he also painted still lives and portraits. Del Mue died on January 24, 1955 at Ross General Hospital in Kentfield.

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