JOHN GAMBLE (1863-1957)
17. Trails End
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
18 x 24 inches
25 x 31 framed
Provenance:
The Artist
John Barnes Miller, 1929, by descent to Alice Henry Miller
In 1929, John Gamble painted Trails End, a depiction of the modest vacation home of John Barnes Miller. Miller, who was married to Carrie Borden of the Borden Company, came to California in the mid-nineteenth century and started the Southern California Edison Company. He was a member of the Bolsa Chica Gun Club in Huntington Beach, helped start the Tournament of Roses Parade, and was a Grand Marshall in 1925. He was an early member of the California Club in Los Angeles, and a founding member of the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. Trails End, located in the Claremont / Pomona foothills, was built as a retreat for family and business in the early 1900’s. The property was sold in the late 1940’s.
A true artist, Gamble never did commercial work and was always able to earn his living from the sale of his paintings. He was a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association, the San Francisco Art Association, the American Federation of the Arts, and the Foundation of Western Artists. He exhibited in the California Midwinter International Exposition (1894), the Mark Hopkins Institute (1898, 1906), and he won the gold medal in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. He also exhibited in the San Francisco Art Association (1916), Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles (1938), and the Golden Gate International Exhibition (1939). Failing eyesight prevented John Gamble from painting in his old age. He passed away at age 93 after a brief illness.
Works held: California Historical Society; Laguna Art Museum; The Fleischer
Collection, Arizona; The Oakland Museum; The Irvine Museum; the Crocker Museum,
Sacramento; Shasta State Park; The Museum of Art, Auckland, New Zealand.
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