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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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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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