Joseph F. Frey

American (1892-1977)

Joseph F. Frey was born in Walla Walla, Washington in 1892. He began his artistic studies at the Art Institute of Chicago when only 16 years old. In 1915 during the furor of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, Frey settled in San Francisco and opened his first studio. After active service during World War I, Frey worked as a chef at sea, studying painting at various ports and rendering works of numerous harbors and coasts. By 1928 he had settled in southern California where he continued to work as a chef and to capture the shoreline in vivid, Impressionistic paintings. Frey exhibited with the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, and his works can be found in galleries and private collections spanning both coasts of the United States.