William S. Rice: California Block Prints, William Seltzer Rice, Pomegranate Communications, Incorporated, 2009, 0764948032, 9780764948039, 80 pages. William Seltzer Rice (American, 18731963) was a young artist of twenty-seven when he stepped off a train in Stockton, California, in 1900; he had left his home in Pennsylvania to take the job of assistant art supervisor for the Stockton public schools. California became not only his lifelong home but also his muse, inspiring a prolific career in art. Rice soon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the region's Arts and Crafts movement was flowering. He was talented in several mediums, but block printing ultimately became his favorite, for it gave him the opportunity to combine draftsmanship, carving, and printing. California's flora, fauna, and landscapes-from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific-were the subjects that fed his creativity. William S. Rice: California Block Prints is the first book published on the artist's work and presents more than sixty of his color block prints dating from 1910 to 1935. Among the prints featured are scenes from Yosemite, Mt. Shasta, Monterey, Carmel, the San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, and other California landmarks. An essay by Roberta Rice Treseder, Rice's daughter, recounts his life and achievements, with special emphasis on his block printing methods and materials. William S. Rice's works are in many private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the New York Public Library, and the Worcester Art Museum..
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Born and raised in Manheim in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he grew up with his parents in his grandparent's home on Market Square that had been occupied by his family for four generations. His parents were John Rice and Sara Seltzer Rice. His grandfather, Samuel Rice, operated a carriage painting business in a shop at the back of the property. Interested in painting from a young age, William Rice set up a small studio in the corner of his grandfather's shop. He took occasional lessons from itinerant painters.[1]
After completing high school, Rice himself began teaching drawing, saving his money to attend art school in Philadelphia, where he lived with a cousin. He won an art school scholarship, and also got a job with the Philadelphia Times as a staff artist. He began studies at the newly founded Drexel Institute, where Howard Pyle was among his teachers.
In 1915, he married Susan Steel, and they honeymooned at Lake Tahoe. That same year, the Panama Pacific International Exposition took place in San Francisco, and he was impressed by the Japanese woodblock prints he saw there. He resolved to become a woodblock print artist. Instead of following the Japanese team method, where an artist did an original painting, who then turned it over to a team of wood carvers and printers, he decided to take control of the entire creative process himself.
His friend Frederick Meyer had founded the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts, originally in Berkeley and later in Oakland. After receiving accreditation, it was renamed the California College of Arts and Crafts. Meyer hired Rice to teach summer classes at his school. In addition, Rice also taught evening extension classes at the University of California, Berkeley.
His works are in the collections of the California College of the Arts, the National Museum of American Art, the Boston Public Library, the New York Public Library, the California State Library, the Library of Congress,[6] the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Elvehjem Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Fitzwilliam Museum.[7] and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.[8]
William Seltzer Rice (1873–1963) was a young artist of twenty-seven when he stepped off a train in Stockton, California, in 1900; he had left his home in Pennsylvania to take the job of assistant art supervisor for the Stockton public schools. California became not only his lifelong home but also his muse, inspiring a prolific career in art. Rice soon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the region’s Arts and Crafts movement was flowering. He was talented in several mediums, but block printing ultimately became his favorite, for it gave him the opportunity to combine his skills of draftsmanship, carving, and printing. California’s flora, fauna, and landscapes—from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific—were the subjects that fed his creativity.
William S. Rice: California Block Prints is the first book published on the artist’s work and presents more than sixty of his color block prints dating from 1910 to 1935. Among the prints featured are scenes from Yosemite, Mt. Shasta, Monterey, Carmel, the San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, and other California landmarks. An essay by Roberta Rice Treseder, Rice’s daughter, recounts his life and achievements, with special emphasis on his block printing methods and materials. William S. Rice’s works are in many private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the New York Public Library, and the Worcester Art Museum.
William Seltzer Rice (1873–1963) was born in Pennsylvania but moved to Northern California in 1900, when the region’s Arts & Crafts movement was flowering. A talented and prolific watercolorist, Rice taught at various schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland—a center for the movement. He became devoted to block printing because compared with original watercolors, prints better suited the Arts & Crafts ethos of making artwork available to a wide audience at modest cost. Unlike many printmakers, Rice designed, carved, and printed the blocks all himself. The landscapes of Northern California—from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific—proved excellent raw materials for his creativity, and his prints today can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
Roberta Rice Tresder, an artist, potter, and teacher, is the youngest of William S. Rice's three children. She holds a bachelor's degree in art from Mills College and a master's degree in ceramics from San Jose State University, where she became the first female instructor in the ceramics department. She lives in Los Gatos and has eight grandchildren.
I highly recommend "William S. Rice: California Block Prints" to art lovers and especially to those who are soft block or linoleum block carvers or aficiandos of this art media. It is filled with color pages of Rice's exquisite & evocative art prints and this art collection appears to be quite comprehensive. This book is a definite keeper in my art book collection.
This absolutely beautiful book displays some of the block prints that William S. Rice produced in his 30+ years of creating art in California's Central Coastal region. Included are both linoleum and wood carved blocks, and even a couple of watercolors - proving what a well-rounded artist Rice was. These block prints are mainly scenes from nature: trees, the ocean, the hills, the sunset. The trees, especially are awe-inspiring. I love the artist's color palette, as well.
If you have any interest in woodcut printmaking this is a wonderful resource and inspiration. I find reading this book fires me up to create prints and shows me a level of skill and creativity to aspire to. It is well balanced between the story of his life, work and techniques and the visual images. Well worth the small amount to purchase and this book will be treasured in my collection of books on and about printmaking and printmakers.
The Annex Galleries has represented the work of William S. Rice since 1982. We are pleased to once again celebrate his work with an exhibition in the gallery and to introduce collectors and curators to the recently published book by Ellen Treseder Sexauer, William S. Rice: Art & Life. Ellen will be in the gallery on the afternoon of Saturday, May 4, between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 to sign copies of her newly published book on her grandfather.
William S. Rice arrived in California in 1900 when traveling about the state was difficult but access to the landscape was almost unrestricted. He painted watercolors en plein air throughout his life and rendered every terrain within the golden state. Here are a few watercolors from his travels to Pacific Grove, Healdsburg, Point Lobos and the hills behind Oakland. In 1915, the Panama Pacific International Exposition opened in San Francisco. It was a grand World’s Fair celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. There was a major print exhibition which included color woodcuts by American and Japanese artists. Enamored with the stylized design as well as the color and printing techniques of the Japanese color woodcuts, Rice revisited the exposition as often as he could to study them. With his new knowledge and excitement for the medium, he produced an amazing body of color woodcuts depicting the landscape and the flowers that he cherished.
Rice embodied the Craftsman spirit by constantly exploring a variety of media. He was an innovative printmaker who experimented with the printmaking technqiues of drypoint, etching, and lithography. His etchings and drypoints often have a sandpaper ground lending a texture to broad expanses of the plates. Rice’s imagery was again drawn from the landscape, the flora and fauna, and the romance of California.
Amazing as it might seem today, in the 1920s and 1930s color prints were not accepted by many established printmaking societies who held exhibitions. An artist had to work in black and white to have his work included in some regional and national shows. William Rice found linoleum to be a receptive and expressive medium for his designs as well as being an easier matrix to carve than wood. The locales of his linocuts reveal that William Rice was still traversing California between 1935 and 1940, capturing the quaintness of an old mining town, the grandeur of the Sierra, or the magnificence of the Pacific Ocean.
The Annex Galleries holds one of the largest original fine print inventories on the West Coast. With over 9,000 works, we specialize in (but are not limited to) original prints of the WPA era, Arts & Crafts movement, and Abstract Expressionism through the 1960's, with a focus on American and Californian artists both known and unknown. We have everything from Durer to Baumann to Picasso.
William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963), painter, printmaker, and craftsman, was born in Manheim, Pennsylvania on June 23, 1873. As a child, Rice taught himself how to draw and set up his studio in the corner of his grandfather’s old carriage shop. After high school Rice earned the necessary money for art school by teaching other students to draw. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art where he was awarded a scholarship. In 1895, after graduation he landed a job as staff artist for the Philadelphia Times but continued taking classes with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute.
In August of 1900, a job offer from his colleague and friend, Frederick H. Meyer, brought Rice to California. At the age of twenty-seven, he became Assistant Art Supervisor in the Stockton Public Schools. In 1910, Rice moved to the East Bay, living first in Alameda before settling in Oakland in 1915. He taught for thirty years in the Alameda and Oakland public schools, and periodically taught classes for the University of California Extension and the California College of Arts and Crafts. While teaching, Rice was taking classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts and earned his BFA in 1929.
Rice began his career in watercolor and produced an amazing body of watercolors capturing the pristine beauty and varied landscapes of California and the southwest. His watercolors from his first fifteen years in California place him in Cazadero, Healdsburg, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Capistrano, Leona and Niles Canyons, Pacific Grove, Moss Beach, the Russian River, Stockton, French Camp, Laguna Beach, Yosemite, Tamalpais, Shasta and Lake Tahoe.
During San Francisco’s 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition, Rice had a chance to study and absorb the techniques of the Japanese woodcuts on display. He would eventually incorporate some of these techniques into his own working knowledge of the medium. In the fall of 1917, the Oakland Art Gallery (now the Oakland Museum of California) featured a solo exhibition of his color woodcuts and the following year a major exhibition of his color woodcuts was mounted under the auspices of the San Francisco Art Association in the Palace of Fine Arts Exposition Grounds. Though he gained national recognition for his printmaking, Rice embodied the Craftsman spirit by exploring a variety of media; besides painting with watercolor and oil, he worked in ceramics, hammered copper, leathercraft, and photography. He was also an innovative printmaker exploring the techniques of monotype, etching, and lithography. Rice authored two books on the subject of block printing, including Block Prints and How to Make Them, and he wrote and illustrated articles on a variety of subjects that were published in various periodicals.
Rice was a member of and exhibited with the Print Makers Society of California, California Society of Etchers, Prairie Printmakers, Bay Region Art Association, Northwest Printmakers, and the San Francisco Art Association. He also exhibited with the California Water Color Society, Association of American Etchers, Print Club of Philadelphia, and the Wichita Art Association.
Rice’s work is represented in numerous public collections including the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Anchorage Museum, Boston Public Library, Chasen Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Fitzwilliam Museum, Haggin Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Manheim Historical Society, Mills College Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nevada Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Oakland Museum of California, Philbrook Museum of Art, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sonoma County Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, University of the Pacific, Worcester Art Museum, and the Yosemite Museum.
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