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Ralph Brownell McGrew was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1916, and moved to California as a young boy. He studied at the Otis Art Institute, excelling in portraiture, which he originally intended to pursue. Several trips to the Southwest, where he came in to contact with Hopis and Navajos, changed his focus to the western genre. His works generally feature people, and are most often painstakingly detailed.

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Frank Mechau was born in Wakeeney, Kansas, in 1903. He studied at the Denver University and the Art Institute of Chicago, where he exhibited, and was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. He is best remembered for his WPA-era murals, and for his modernist western landscapes.

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Walter Farrington Moses was born in Sterling, Illinois, in 1874, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving west to Los Angeles in 1923. Moses taught briefly at the Art Guild Academy, and is best known for his paintings of the California desert. Walter Moses died in Los Angeles in 1947.

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William Moyers was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1916. His introduction to the western subjects came as a boy when he worked on a ranch in Colorado. Following college, Moyers moved to Los Angeles to study at the Otis Art Institute. Moyers found work as a successful animator for Disney, and illustrator, and eventually pursue his art full-time. Moyers draws on his experience and to produce highly detailed and accurate Western genre paintings.

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Loren Mozley was a landscape and mural artist who is most often associated with the state of Texas. Mozley exhibited at the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles Exhibit in 1938.

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Gilbert Munger was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1837. Munger began work as an engraver at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., at the young age of 14. Following service in the Civil War, Munger moved to San Francisco, where he traveled and painted in Carmel and Yosemite. From 1876-1893, Munger maintained a studio in Barbizon, France, where his works show the influence of Corot. Upon his return to the U.S., Munger lived the rest of his life in Washington, D.C., having earned fame as a classical landscape artist.

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Bror Nordfeldt was born in Talstog, Sweden, in 1878, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1892. Nordfeldt studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and after an apprenticeship with Albert Herter in New York, studied in Paris at the Academie Julian. After service in WW II, Nordfeldt settled in Taos, New Mexico where he became a well known modernist figure, famous for his colorist works of Native Americans, still lifes, and landscapes.

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Arvid Nyholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1866, where he studied with Anders Zorn. Further study followed in Paris at the Academie Colarossi before his move to Chicago. A pure impressionist, Nyholm is best known for his delicate figurative works.

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William Parrott was born in Missouri in 1844, and moved west to Oregon with his family as a boy. His early art training is unclear, but he was likely a self-taught painter. He established himself in Portland, maintaining a studio there for more than 20 years. Parrott painted extensively throughout the western states, and is best known for his dramatic landscapes of Mount Hood.

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John Ross Key was raised by his grandfather, Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner. The younger Key studied art in Munich and Paris before settling in Boston where he established a studio. Key enjoyed success while in Boston, and showed his works at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Boston Art Club. In 1869 he moved to San Francisco. While in California Key traveled extensively, painting scenes of Yosemite, Carmel, Tahoe, and the Giant Sequoia trees. Key left California after only two years. He died in Baltimore in 1920.

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