The Society of Six

Six plein-air painters based in Oakland, California, joined together in the late 1910s and formed an association that lasted through the 1930s. During this period, the Society of Six - Seldon Gile, Louis Siegriest, Bernard von Eichman, August F. Gay, William H. Clapp and Maurice Logan - created paintings with vivid colors and expressive energy. Transcending the picturesque, the group was initially viewed as raw and rough but are now widely considered the pioneers of modernism in Northern California.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.