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Theodore Van Soelen was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1890. He studied in his hometown at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences, as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Europe. Returning to the U.S. Van Soelen would travel extensively through the Southwest, living in Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico, where he settled in Santa Fe, becoming known for his realist landscapes of the region.

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Henry James Soulen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1888, where he studied at the local Art Students League before leaving for the Art Institute of Chicago. Soulen enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator, regularly contributing to some of the most popular publications of his day, including the Saturday Evening Post. He was also a professor, teaching illustration art at the University of Maryland.

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Edgar Payne was a self-taught artist, who has come to be known as one of the premiere Southern California plein air painters. Payne and his artist wife, Elsie Palmer Payne, settled in Laguna Beach, California, in 1918, where he established and served as President of the Laguna Beach Art Association. Best known for his majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain scenes, Payne also painted the California Coast, the Swiss Alps, Italian Harbors, and the Four Corners region of Arizona.

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Ruth Peabody was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1898. She was a sculpture student at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was instructed in oil painting by her mother, artist Eleanor Colburn, with whom she moved to Laguna Beach in 1924. Peabody first worked creating fountain sculpture commissions before turning to teaching and painting. She experimented with abstraction, and painted florals and garden scenes toward the end of her life. She died in Laguna Beach in 1967.

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Marguerite Pearson was born in Philadelphia in 1898. Struck with polio while in her teens, and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, Pearson did not allow her disability to alter her plans of becoming an artist. Pearson studied with Edmund Tarbell, and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She is known for her exquisitely rendered interior scenes, as well as her still lifes and figurative works. Pearson moved to Rockport, Massachusetts in 1941, where she taught and painted until her death in 1978.

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Jane Peterson was born in Elgin, Illinois, in 1876. Peterson attended the Pratt Institute and studied at the Art Students League in New York. Following her studies, Peterson was offered teaching posts, which she would not keep long, preferring to continue her education in Paris, Venice, London, and Madrid. Through all this instruction Peterson developed a unique vision in American art. Her works are a blend of Impressionist and Expressionist styles. Known for her vivid, richly painted still lifes, and beach scenes painted along the Massachusetts coast.

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Burt Geer Phillips was born in Hudson, New York, in 1868. In 1883 he began five years study at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York, where he found work as an artist following his training. Opting for more schooling, Phillips left in 1894 for London and Paris, where he met the artist Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein. Sharp never missed an opportunity to share tales of Taos, New Mexico, and in 1898, Phillips and Blumenschein bought a wagon and headed west. When their wagon broke near Taos, the men ended their trek and rented studios in the town. Though Blumenschein eventually went back east, Phillips stayed on, and was a founding member of the Taos Art Colony. Phillips was a collector of Native American artifacts. Pieces from his collection would often appear in his vivid, semi-romantic paintings of the Southwest.

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Ida Podchernikoff was born in Belle Plain, Minnesota, in 1868. Ida married the artist Alexis Podchernikoff and, although active, her works are quite rare and often unsigned. A resident of San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Pasadena between 1910 and 1944, Ida Podchernikoff made faithful copies of religious genre paintings. She died in San Francisco in 1944.

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Maurice Prendergast was born in Newfoundland, in 1859. His family moved to Boston when he was a boy, where he was apprenticed to a sign painter. Prendergast studied formally in Paris at the Academies Julian and Colarossi and returned to Massachusetts in 1894. He work caught the attention of patrons Mr. and Mrs. Sears, who helped him finance travels and exhibitions in Cincinnati and Chicago. While on a trip to Paris in 1907, Prendergast first saw the vibrant works of the Post-Impressionists who would strongly influence his work. His works are often bright and richly worked scenes of people at leisure.

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Burt Proctor was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1901, where he grew up with an interest in cowboys and Indians. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and Stanford University where he studied mining engineering. He settled in Pasadena in 1920, and worked as a commercial artist while attending the Otis and Chouinard Institutes. Proctor enjoyed two careers throughout his life, mining and illustration, and painted his western genre works in his free time.

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