3 results for: Fox, Charles J.
Oil portrait of Joshua Green and Dwight Merrill by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1950
Joshua Green (1869–1975) was a sternwheeler captain, businessman, and eventually an established banker, purchasing the Peoples Savings Bank in Seattle in 1925. He changed the name to Peoples Bank and Trust Co. two years later. Richard Dwight (R.D.) Merrill (1869-1964), came to the Pacific Northwest in the 1890's to establish timber holdings. His father had formed the Merrill and Ring…
ID Number:1960.1963
Date:Circa 1950
Oil portrait of Emil George Sick by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1950
Emil George Sick was born in 1894 in Tacoma, Washington, and died in Seattle in 1964. He was best known for being a successful brewery industrialist (Sicks Rainier Brewing Company and others), and owner of Seattle's baseball team, the Rainiers, which he purchased in 1937. A year later, he built the now demolished baseball stadium that beared his name: Sick…
ID Number:1960.1965
Date:Circa 1950
Oil portrait of Charles F. Clise by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1957
The Clise family have strong roots in Seattle with JW Clise arriving in this area in 1899, one day after the Great Seattle Fire. Clise helped rebuild the city after that devastation and Clise Properties flourished and Charles Clise continued that legacy. The artist signature, CJ (Charles J.) Fox, was an alias for Leo Fox, a New York artist who,…
ID Number:1962.2613
Date:Circa 1957