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Charles Mulvey

Charles Mulvey (1918 - 2001) was active/lived in Washington, Oregon.  Charles Mulvey is known for Realist and semi-real marine, shoreline, coastal landscape painting.

Obituary of Charles W. Mulvey. Dec 27, 2001 and Remembrances:
  
Noted water color painter and long-time resident Charles Mulvey, 83, died Dec. 24, 2001, at his home in Seaview.

He was born May 9, 1918, to William and Alice (Shannon) Mulvey in Oregon City, Ore. He attended grade school there at McLoughlin Institute and graduated from Oregon City High School.

Mr. Mulvey first visited the Peninsula as a youngster, summering with his family in the 1920s. His artistic talent was recognized at an early age by his school teacher mother. He studied at art schools in Portland and Seattle and at The Art Center in Los Angeles.

In the early 1940s, Mr. Mulvey lived in the Seattle area where he worked building airplanes for Boeing before joining the Army Air Corps. Following his marriage to Maureen Morse, they moved to Seaview in 1947 where he worked at Tim Williams' service station in Ilwaco and later bought the station, operating it as Chuck's Chevron for fiv