Clayton Sumner Price

Clayton Sumner "C. S." Price (1874 – 1950) was an American expressionist painter from Oregon.

Price was born on May 11, 1874 near Bedford, Iowa, and raised on farms and ranches there and in Wyoming and Alberta, Canada. In 1905, a local rancher loaned Price money so he could attend the St. Louis Museum School of Fine Arts. Price attended the school during the 1905–1906 academic year; it would be his only formal training. In 1909, Price moved to Portland, Oregon to work as an illustrator for The Pacific Monthly magazine. Price's illustrations of the magazine's Western stories were reminiscent of the work of Charles Marion Russell. Price left Portland in 1910, painting and working for room and board on the farms and ranches of his siblings in British Columbia and California for the next eight years. Price visited Monterey, California in 1918. Price returned to Portland in 1929. During the 1930s, Price completed a series of large paintings as part of the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project. These works currently are displayed in Timberline Lodge, the Multnomah County Library, Pendleton High School, and the Portland Art Museum. He died on May 1, 1950.

Price’s long tenure in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the Monterey Peninsula had the most profound impact on the development of his art. He visited San Francisco for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the spring of 1915 and decided to stay. The following January he displayed two “remarkable” studies of domestic animals at the Exhibition of California Artists at the Memorial Museum. This was soon followed by an exhibit of “pastoral scenes” at Helgesen’s Gallery. From 1917 to 1920 he studied as an occasional student at the California School of Fine Arts (today's San Francisco Art Institute) under Pedro Joseph de Lemos, Lee F. Randolph and Frank van Sloun, and was awarded a second prize at the school’s annual exhibit in 1920. According to the U.S. Census that year he was unmarried and resided in San Francisco near his mentor and teacher, the renowned artist Gottardo Piazzoni.

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