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Charles William Bolsius was born in 
He exhibited his art in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and San Francisco. He designed and built numerous modified territorial/pueblo revival buildings in and around old
CharlesBolsius.com
Old Fort Lowell:
ASU Kerr House
Biographical information
at AskArt.com website supporting art auctions {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolsius, Charles 1907 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American architects 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters Architects from Tucson, Arizona American male painters American male sculptors American furniture designers Artists from Tucson, Arizona Artists from Albuquerque, New Mexico Artists of the American West Dutch emigrants to the United States Painters from New Mexico Sculptors from Arizona Sculptors from New Mexico
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, the Netherlands on 23 June 1907. He studied art formally in Europe moving to New Mexico in the early 1930s. He settled in Tucson
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in 1934. In that year he was painting, printing, building, and hand carving fine furniture and doors.
Life and work
Charles Bolsius's sophisticated artistic sensibly was influenced by German and Dutch expressionists including:Leo Gestel
Leo Gestel (11 November 1881, Woerden – 26 November 1941, Hilversum) was a Dutch painter. His father Willem Gestel was also an artist. Leo Gestel experimented with cubism, expressionism, futurism and postimpressionism. Along with Piet Mondrian ...
, Jan Toorop, Kees van Dongen
Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter who was one of the leading Fauves. Van Dongen's early work was influenced by the Hague School and symbolism and it evolved gradually into a r ...
, and Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen; 7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German-Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of th ...
while embracing the scale and environmental tonality of the American West.
He exhibited his art in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and San Francisco. He designed and built numerous modified territorial/pueblo revival buildings in and around old Fort Lowell
Fort Lowell was a United States Army post active from 1873 to 1891 on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Fort Lowell was the successor to Camp Lowell, an earlier Army installation.http://www.oflna.org/fort_lowell_museum/ftlowell.htm Fort Lowell, ...
on the edge of Tucson and was a member of many Tucson art organizations.
His woodwork can be seen throughout the old Fort Lowell
Fort Lowell was a United States Army post active from 1873 to 1891 on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Fort Lowell was the successor to Camp Lowell, an earlier Army installation.http://www.oflna.org/fort_lowell_museum/ftlowell.htm Fort Lowell, ...
Historic District, Arizona State University Kerr House, in homes in Tucson's Catalina Foothills (including the front door of 2540 East Camino La Zorrela), the Church Doors of Sasabe, Arizona
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Sasabe ( ood, Ṣaṣawk) is a small hamlet in the Altar Valley of southern Pima County, Arizona, United States, immediately north of the international border with Mexico. It hosts a minor border crossing, an adobe sales outlet, a pu ...
(which were lent out to the film Lilies of the Field) and the doors to the Our Lady of Sorrows chapel at San Xavier del Bac
Mission San Xavier del Bac ( es, La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in ...
. The dining room table at Rancho De La Osa in Sasabe, Arizona
Bolsius died in March 1983 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.
Architectural works
Bolsius designed and built only a handful of architectural projects. He worked with architectural designerVeronica Hughart
Annie Verona "Veronica" Barry Hughart (1907–1977) was artist, architectural designer and journalist who lived in Tucson, Arizona and was an active part of the Old Fort Lowell art colony.
Life
Hughart was born in Idaho to Ernest Zimmerman Bar ...
who incorporated his doors and woodwork into her projects. Following is a list of some of Bolsius's most important works, which are located in Tucson unless otherwise noted.
* Las Saetas, redesign and construction of Fort Lowell Post Traders Store, Old Fort Lowell, (1934)
* El Cuartel Viejo, redesign and construction of Fort Lowell Commisay, Old Fort Lowell, (1942 - 1949)
* The Charles Bolsius House, Old Fort Lowell, (1949 - 1972)
* LeaChar House, King Street, Tanque Verde, (1979)
* Davis House, Avenida Del Cazador in foothills (1961) Hughart designed home and Bolsius carved doors (1972)
References
* Turner, Teresa, The People of Fort Lowell, Fort Lowell Historic District Board * Arizona Daily Star, Bolsius dies; artist was 75, March 23, 1983.External links
CharlesBolsius.com
Old Fort Lowell:
ASU Kerr House
Biographical information
at AskArt.com website supporting art auctions {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolsius, Charles 1907 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American architects 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters Architects from Tucson, Arizona American male painters American male sculptors American furniture designers Artists from Tucson, Arizona Artists from Albuquerque, New Mexico Artists of the American West Dutch emigrants to the United States Painters from New Mexico Sculptors from Arizona Sculptors from New Mexico