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Julius Rolshoven was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1858, and attended the Cooper Union School in New York, as well as the Dusseldorf and Royal Academy in Munich. Rolshoven would stay in Europe for many years, eventually teaching in Paris and London. With the onset of WW I, he returned to the U.S., settling in Santa Fe, new Mexico, where he became known for his sensitive portraits and figure studies of the local Native Americans.

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Mary Herrick Ross was born in San Francisco in 1856, where she was one of the first students at the newly opened School of Design. Specializing in floral still lifes, Ross was a resident of San Francisco until 1914, when she moved across the Bay to Piedmont, where she died in 1935.

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Carl Rungius was born in near Berlin, Germany, in 1869, where he studied at the Berlin School of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Art, and the School of Applied Arts. He immigrated to New York in 1894, and spent 10 years contributing commercial work to magazines, before devoting himself to fine art. Like his grandfather, Rungius was an avid hunter, and spent prolonged periods in the Pacific Northwest, eventually building a studio in Alberta, Canada. His paintings of big game, painted en plein air, were prized for their accuracy and highly collected. Among his many collectors was Theodore Roosevelt.

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Harold Von Schmidt was born in Alameda, California, in 1893, and studied nearby at the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland. He continued his studies in San Francisco with western artist, Maynard Dixon, before moving to New York in 1924, where he earned an excellent reputation for his western illustrations, contributing to the Saturday Evening Post and other publications. He moved to Connecticut to 1930 to co-found and teach at the Famous Artists School. He is best known for his detailed depictions of the American West.

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Walter Elmer Schofield was born in Philadelphia in 1867 where he attended Swarthmore College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, before leaving for Paris to study at the Academie Julian. From Paris Schofield headed to England, where he settled in the St. Ives art colony at Cornwall. Schofield is remembered for his Impressionist winter scenes, painted in England and Pennsylvania. His works were richly developed, and often infused with brilliant cobalt blues.

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A landscape and Native American genre painter, William Sharer was born in 1937, and is most often associated with California, and the desert Southwest.

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Everett Shinn was born in Woodstown, New Jersey. His art study was at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he studied with Thomas Anschutz. Finding work as an illustrator, Shinn worked for the Philadelphia Press and the New York Herald. His work is in the vein of the social realists of the early 20th century, often centered on poorer urban themes.

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Frank Van Sloun was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1879, where he was a star athlete, and signed on to play professional baseball. His career in sports was brief, however, and in 1900 he left for New York to study at the Art Students League, where he was associated with the Society of Independent Artists. He moved to San Francisco in 1911 to open a studio, and was well received. He performed many mural commissions for public spaces around the Bay Area including the California Palace of Fine Arts. His predominant style was reminiscent of the Social Realists of New York, though he did experiment with others modernist techniques.

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Langdon Smith was born in Massachusetts, in 1870, and moved to Pasadena with his family when he was a small boy. His art instruction was in Los Angeles at the School of Art and Design. Between 1895 and 1915 Smith was a highly sought illustrator, earning strong commercial success for his western genre works. Smith divided his time between his studio in Los Angeles and a home in the Sierra Foothills, where he died in 1959.

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Jack Wilkinson Smith was born in Patterson, New Jersey, in 1873. His art studies were with George Gardner Symons at the Art Institute of Chicago, and with Frank Duvaneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. In 1906 he settled in Monrovia, California, where his artist neighbors included Frank Tenney Johnson and Norman Rockwell. In southern California Smith helped found a major venue for local artists, the Biltmore Salon. He is best known today for his powerful coastal scenes and dramatic Sierra Mountain paintings.

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