" Fort Mason Docks - San Francisco Bay - Looking to the Marina District & Pacific Heights". ( 1940 ): Original watercolor on heavy Arches paper: signed lower right " James Proctor ": titled and dated verso " Cloudy Day - Ft. Mason - 1940 ": image size: 25 1/2 inches by 19 1/2 inches: framed under glass with new archival mat in a fine new custom gold leaf frame: frame size is 32 x 26 inches: both artwork and frame are in excellent condition. ( Actual color is closest to that in my first and second photos: Odd white spots are from photo flash and glass reflections only: frame shape distortion is from my camera lens only ).
An important Army Marina Post for over 100 years, today Fort Mason is a National Historic Landmark housing galleries many cultural organizations.
James William Proctor of Goole, England. An important early Modernist, Proctor worked almost exclusively in watercolor. Proctor's progressive, broad stroked, 'American Scene' landscape watercolors from the 1940s show the influence of the Berkeley School watercolorists as well as the influence of his friend, Bay Area watercolorist, George Post.
A precocious youth, Proctor was tutored by the artist, Martha Berry, holding his first exhibition at age thirteen at the Skyland Lodge in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Proctor continued his studies for six years at the Yale School of Fine Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. While at the Art Student's League, Proctor studied under Reginald Marsh, who became a lifelong friend and in later years he was a collector of Marsh's work
From 1942 to 1945 Proctor served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific where he worked as a draftsman and designer while continuing to paint landscapes and figurative subjects in watercolor in Guam and Hawaii. After the war, in 1946 and 1947 Proctor traveled on to Switzerland where he studied psychoanalysis at the Carl Jung Institute. During this period, Proctor began to record many of his dreams in watercolor. These autobiographical symbolic works took on a Modernist style that was to influence his later work in watercolor. Leaving Switzerland, Proctor established his studio in Berkeley, California where he recorded the local landscape in a fresh spontaneous style. In the 1950s and 1960s while continuing to maintain his studio in Berkeley, California, Proctor traveled and painted throughout Europe ( France, England, Italy, Germany, Switzerland ) and Asia ( Thailand, Japan, China ). In later years, Proctor retired to a studio home in Carmel, California.
Throughout his life, Proctor exhibited actively, including at New York University ( 1938 Grand Prize in Watercolor ): Yale University Art Gallery: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center ( 1944 ):Oakland Museum of Art ( Exhibition of Western Painters: 1955 ): Von Keppel & Green/Beverly Hills: Arizona University/Tucson: Arizona State Museum of Art ( 1943 ): Tucson: Summit Art Association: New Jersey: Gumps Galleries/San Francisco: Kresges Gallery/New Jersey: Pacific Grove Art Center: Monterey Art Museum. ( REF: Askart ).
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