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John Hubbard Rich was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. Following a stint as an illustrator, he attended the Art Students League in New York, and the Boston Museum School, where he was awarded a scholarship to study in Europe. Upon his return to the U.S., Rich taught at the Groton School in New York before leaving for Los Angeles to found the Los Angeles School for Painting and Illustrating. He also held teaching positions at the Otis Institute, and the University of Southern California (USC). He dide in Los Angeles in 1954, and is remembered as a versatile artist, painting portraits, still lifes, figures, and florals.

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Mary Curtis Richardson was born in New York City in 1848, and came to California in 1850, where her father had joined the gold rush. Her father was an engraver, and taught this skill to his daughters. Following further study at Cooper Union in New York, Richardson returned to San Francisco to open a wood engraving business. Upon its opening in 1874, Mary was one of the first students to enroll in the San Francisco School of Design. Known as the Mary Cassatt of the west, Richardson is best remembered for her intimate figuratives, usually featuring mother and child.

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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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