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Title |
Giraffe Painting from Noah's Ark Restaurant, 1924 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
Giraffe Painting from Noah's Ark Restaurant, 1924. Oil on canvas oversize painting mounted inside a brown painted wooden frame. Depicts a giraffe eating leaves off a tree. He's on a grassy plain with bushes and additional trees in the background and a large gold, lavender and blue sky with clouds above and filling the entire top right corner. |
Date |
1924 |
Creator |
DeTreville, Richard |
Role |
Artist |
Catalog Number |
1971.213.011 |
Dimensions |
H-103.625 W-55.5 D-2.875 inches |
Dimension Details |
103.625 x 55.5 x 2.875 |
Collection |
3D - Art |
Inscription Text |
De Treville (signature bottom right-hand corner) |
Provenance |
Was on display at Noah's Ark restaurant in San Mateo. |
Notes |
"Noah Williams, an African American man from Kansas City, Missouri, opened restaurants in the city of San Mateo that became centerpieces of the Black community. He worked in a cafeteria in San Francisco for a few years before moving to San Mateo in 1920 with his wife, Mabelle. In 1923, he opened his first restaurant, Noah’s Cafeteria, on South B Street, where he drew devoted customers from around the Peninsula with his famous fried chicken and Missouri baked hams." [http://www.historysmc.org/sites/default/files/La%20Peninsula%2C%20Migration%2C%20Spring%202016%2C%20Online.pdf 10/23/2017] "Richard DETREVILLE 1864 - 1929 Richard DeTreville was born in Beaufort, South Carolina on November 17, 1864 into a prominent, old family of French ancestry... In 1892 he moved to California and settled in Stockton where he established a small newspaper called Det's Magazine. Shortly after 1910 he moved from Stockton to San Francisco where he worked as a cartoonist for the Park Presidio News. In his studio on Clement Street he exhibited his paintings as well as in local department stores and art galleries. His works were handled locally by Schussler Brothers and Sanborn & Vail. The last few years of his life were spent across the bay in Alameda where he died on February 25, 1929." [http://www.edanhughes.com/biography.cfm?ArtistID=12 10/23/2017] |
Search Terms |
Noah's Ark Restaurant, San Mateo Painting Paintings Restaurants San Mateo Williams, Noah |
Subjects |
Giraffes Oil paintings Painting Restaurants |
People |
DeTreville, Richard Williams, Noah |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Les Williams |