Paul B. McKee painted by Arthur James Cahill in 1962

Paul B. McKee painted by Arthur James Cahill in 1962

Oil on canvas...44" by 48" frame size
Arthur Cahill, artist
American, 1879 - 1970

signed Arthur Cahill


Paul B. McKee, president of Pacific starting in 1933, realized that the massive government projects presented Pacific with tremendous opportunities for growth--partly because the projects would stimulate the regional economy, but also because the company could buy a share of the low-cost hydroelectric power that the dams would produce. McKee also dealt with a strong government-ownership movement in Washington and northern Oregon from the Depression through the mid-1950s. More than 100 votes were held on establishing public utility districts or municipal ownership, and Pacific won most of them. It had fairly strong support from the public because of its good service record and its efforts to stimulate economic growth in the regions it served.

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Arthur James Cahill

Born in San Francisco, California, Arthur Cahill became noted for his portraiture. He was also an illustrator and caricaturist who lived in California much of his life but spent a few years in San Antonio, Texas in the 1930s.

Cahill attended public school in Eureka and the Jesuit Brothers School of San Jose. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute and in Paris, and from 1892 to 1906, worked as an illustrator for San Francisco newspapers. After the earthquake (showing 500 of 1096 characters).

Another example of his work.




Arthur Cahill, artist
American, 1879 - 1970
Adolph B. Spreckels, 1920
oil on canvas
33 1/4 x 26 (84.5 x 66 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels through the Patrons of Art and Music 1951.42

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Legion of Honor History
The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels to the city of San Francisco. In 1915 Mrs. Spreckels fell in love with the French Pavilion at San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition. This pavilion was a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, one of the distinguished eighteenth-century landmarks on the left bank of the Seine. Alma Spreckels persuaded her husband, Adolph B. Spreckels, the sugar magnate, to recapture the beauty of the pavilion as a new art museum for San Francisco
Gift of Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels through the Patrons of Art and Music 1951.42