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Mahonri MacIntosh Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1877. He was the grandson of Brigham Young, the second leader of the Church of Latter Day Saints and former Governor of Utah. Earning his tuition and travel expenses as an illustrator, Young attended the Art Students League, returning to Utah in 1901. With a modest inheritance from his grandfather, Young was afforded further study at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he changed his focus from painting to sculpture. Young returned to the states, settling in New York where he was very much in demand for his works. He was made an associate of the National Academy of design in 1912.

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A sculptor of traditional western subjects, works by Grant Speed are in the collections of the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Cowboy Artists of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

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John Mix Stanley was born in Canandaigua, New York, in 1814. Stanley moved to Detroit in 1834, finding work as a sign painter. His work attracted the attention of local artist James Bowman, with whom Stanley would receive his art training. Joining the Military during the Mexican War, Stanley was placed in the Corps of Topographical Engineers, helping map a trail west to California. Stanley spent 10 years chronicling his travels, painting historical portraits of scores of Native American Tribes. Tragically, the majority of these works were lost in 3 separate incidents of fire, including one at the Smithsonian Institution in 1865.

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Ross Stefan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1934, where he held first exhibition at the age of 13. He moved with his family to Tucson, Arizona, in 1953, beginning a life-long fascination with traditional western art. He is best known for his landscapes and horse and rider paintings. Works by Stefan are in the collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Joseph Stella was born in Italy in 1877. He studied medicine in New York before attending the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. From 1900-1909, Stella was earning a reputation for himself as a fine illustrator, specializing in social realist subjects, until a trip to Paris radically changed his focus to Modernism. He exhibited several works in the pivotal 1913 Armory Show. His primary Modernist influence was futurism, a theme he would work with until his death in 1946.

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An avowed modernist painter, Earl Stroh began his art training in New York at the Art Institute of Buffalo. Stroh first visited Taos in 1947 for a summer class, and it was there that he met Andrew Dasburg, like Stroh, a strong admirer of Paul Cezanne. He became a resident of Taos in 1948, where his works caught the eye of a local dealer, and found a patron who sponsored his travel and study in New York and Paris. Stroh continues to work in Taos, focusing his non-representational work on form and color.

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Ray Swanson was born in South Dakota, in 1937. He was raised there, and in Los Angeles, Where he studied aeronautical science at the Norhtrop Institute of Technology. Encouraged by friends and family to pursue an art career, the Swansons moved to Arizona in 1973, exhibiting to strong acclaim. Swanson travels widely in search of subject matter, but is best known for his works of the landscape and Native Americans of Arizona.

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George Gardner Symons was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied at the Art Institute and met his lifelong friend, William Wendt. Further study followed in London, Paris, and Munich. Upon his return to the states, Symons moved west to California, and along with Wendt, built a studio in Laguna Beach where he was able paint en plein air year-round. He remained involved in southern California art, but maintained a primary studio in New York. He is best remembered for his snowy winter landscapes of New England.

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Mary Bradish Titcomb was born in Windham, New Hampshire, in 1856. Her formal art education was at the Boston Normal Art School, and the Boston Museum School. For many years she was a school teacher in the Boston area, eventually quitting in 1901 to devote herself to painting full-time. She completed a number of portraits during her life, but is best remembered for her impressionist landscapes and coastal villages of New England.

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Tokio Ueyama was born in Wakayama, Japan, in 1890, where he studied before moving to the U.S. to enter the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. By 1922 he was a resident of California, where he lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he was a regular exhibitor at the Painters and Sculptors Club. Ueyama died in Los Angeles in 1954.

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