CARL FAILLE LISTED ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA WILLOW TREE RIVER LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING

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100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!!! !!! You are viewing a stunning impressionist painting by Carl Faille. He was an early California impressionist and has a strong biography. This oil on canvas is in excellent condition and housed in a period "bat-wing" frame. Popular molding for Curtis photographs and other western themes. The oil on canvas features a Weeping Willow on the banks of river. Great color and thick impasto brushstrokes. Note on Pictures: Please Artist: Carl Faille Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed lower left Circa: 1941 or 1948 Size of Piece: Approximately 21 by 23 inches on the wall and 16 by 18 inches painting alone. Condition: The painting is in excellent original condition. Might benefit from a light cleaning. Some small losses to the frame. Shipping: International shipping is set to USPS unframed for $85. Shipping to Canada is UPS $50 framed. Email for a framed shipping quote. Biography: Charles Arthur Failles, AKA Carl Arthur Faille, was born on 17 February 1882 in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Charles Arthur and Cordelia Leduc Failles. The Failles family operated the Failles Silk and Ostrich Feather Dye Works for four generations, according to a Newport, Rhode Island newspaper. The Failles family reportedly came to Detroit about 1850 from Laprairie, Quebec, Canada, though it was more likely after 1861, as Charles Sr. and his father, also Charles, are listed in the 1861 Canadian census. Charles and Cordelia married on 13 December 1868 in a French Catholic church in Detroit, Michigan. Charles is listed in Detroit city directories as an "Ostrich Feather Dyer" in 1881, with a notation that he had won a First Premium Award at the State Fair in 1880. In one instance, he is mentioned as Charles Failles Jr., so his father may also have moved to Detroit. The Failles relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana by 1884, where the family was still occupied in the ostrich feather trade. Charles Failles was a charter member of the Indiana Audubon Society in 1898. The family name appears as both Faille and Failles in records. The first record of Carl is in the 1900 census of Indianapolis, though he was still known as Charles. The first appearance of the use of the name of Carl was in the 1930 census. Carl was living in Chicago, Illinois during the 1910 census, where he was employed as a "designer, interior". His WWI draft registration card gave his profession as "Zoo Designer, self employed". Failles was living in Seattle, Washington at the time. Failles could not be located in the 1920 census, but was mentioned in the 1926 May issue of Dearborn Magazine as Charles Failles Jr. of Indianapolis, a "mountain painter" of great ability. The first appearance of Carl A. Faille was in the 1930 census of San Diego, California, where he was employed as an "artist, landscapes". According to a lengthy biography in Dictionnaire des artistes de langue francaise en Amerique du Nord by David Karel, Faille was living between Santa Cruz, CA and Brooklyn in 1925, in San Diego, CA and Columbus, OH in 1929 and Ocean Beach, CA in 1934. Faille was living in Newark, New Jersey in 1938, where he was employed as an artist. He was married to Joanne R. Mutschmann by this time. Faille taught at the Albany Institute of History and Art in 1943 and there are several mentions of the "Carl A. Faille Lecture Courses in Art Appreciation" in the late 1940s. The Failles relocated to Albany, New York by 1944 where he operated a business called Paint-O-Crayon-Crafts. By 1948 he was also operating the Faille Studios of Art in addition to his earlier business. The Failles were living in Gloucester, MA in 1953. Faille exhibited his work at the Montclair Art Museum, Los Angeles Art Museum, Kansas City Art Institute, Detroit Art Institute, Maryland Art Institute, and J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky... read more

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