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Manuel Valencia was born in Marin County in 1856, to a land-rich early California family. His grandfather came to California with the Anza party in 1774 and became administrator of the Presidio in San Francisco. Manuel was largely a self-taught artist except for a few lessons with Jules Tavernier. Manuel maintained a studio in San Francisco, where he specialized in landscapes and historical works featuring the California Missions. A prolific artist, he was also a staff artist for the San Francisco Chronicle

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Carlos Vierra was born in Moss Landing, California, a small fishing town on the Monterey Bay in 1876. His art study was at the Mark Hopkins School in San Francisco, and in New York where he struggled but finally achieved recognition for his marine paintings. Suffering from lung problems, Vierra moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the advice of his doctor. He is credited with founding the art colony in Santa Fe, and for helping the city preserve its architectural heritage.

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Robert Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1858. He started his art studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, and continued his education at the Academie Julian in Paris. Vonnoh was one of the first of the Americans artists to be deeply influenced by the Impressionist movement. Vonnoh is remembered as an influential teacher as well, having taught Robert Henri and Maxfield Parrish at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. A frequent visitor and resident of France, Robert Vonnoh died in Nice in 1933.

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Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1876. Extremely well educated in the arts, Wachel began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by work with William Merritt Chase in New York, and William Keith when she moved to San Francisco in 1903. It was Keith who introduced Marion Kavanaugh to her final teacher, Elmer Wachtel, who would become her husband in 1904. Settling along the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, Elmer and Marion Wachtel would become two of the most recognized names in early California painting, with Elmer working in oils, and Marion in watercolors to avoid competition between each other.

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Nell Walker Warner was born in Richardson County, Nebraska, in 1891. Her art studies were at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. She was an active member of the southern California art community, where she studied with Paul Lauritz and Nicolai Fechin, and curated the Tuesday Afternoon Club in Los Angeles. In 1950 she moved to Carmel, where she died in 1970. She is best remembered for her floral still lifes, and New England harbor scenes.

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Abel Warshawsky was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1883, and was raised in Cleveland where he studied at the local Art Institute. He continued his studies in New York at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design, before leaving for France, where he would enjoy tremendous success, and remain until the onset of WW II. Returning to the States, Warshawsky settled in Carmel, where he died in 1962, best remembered for his pure Impressionist landscapes.

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Adolph Weinman was born in Germany in 1870, and moved to the U.S. ten years later, where he studied at the Cooper Union and Art Students League in New York. Weinman opened a studio in New York, where his figure sculptures were well received. By 1906 he was elected a member of the National Academy. Works by Weinman can be found in a number of museum collections, including the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the Gilgrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Joseph Weisman was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1906. When he was a boy his family settled in Los Angeles, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute, and would remain active for the rest of his career. He worked in the art departments of the Hollywood studios before accepting a teaching position with the Los Angeles public school system. Primarily a watercolorist, Weisman is best known for his landscapes and California Regionalist works.

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Henry Richter was born in Austria in 1870, and immigrated with his family in 1887, settling in Chicago. He was a self-taught artist, working for a commercial art company when he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago, where he exhibited his works to favorable reviews. Richter taught at the Western State Teachers College in Colorado, and at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1919 he moved to Laguna Beach, where he painted and taught for some 20 years. Primarily a landscape painter, he worked in both watercolors and oils until his death in 1960.

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William Ritschel was born in Nurmberg, where he was educated at the Latin and Industrial School. Ritschel studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich where he excelled at painting the sea, something he had begun sketching years earlier while working on merchant ships. Ritchel immigrated to New York in 1895, and nearly fifteen years later settled in Carmel, California. He continued to exhibit his marine paintings in New York, and in 1918 was elected to the National Academy of Design. Ritschel never went far from the sea for inspiration. He built a home on a bluff near Carmel, and was a frequent sight on the rocks and beaches nearby.

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