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Robert Henri was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865, and fled with his family to New Jersey as a boy, when his father was fearing a murder charge for which he was later cleared. Having shown talent at an early age, Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art before leaving for the Academie Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Upon his return to the states, Henri settled in New York was he decidedly against the grain of the prevailing artistic climate. Henri, along with others who would come to be known as the Ashcan school of art, stressed the importance of social realism as they painted the unsung, and everyday people and scenes of impoverished urban life.

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Albert Herter was born in New York in 1871, where he studied at the Art Students League before leaving for Paris for further instruction. Upon his return to the states, Herter moved to Chicago, teaching at the Art Institute. Herter is best known for his delicate mixed-media portraits, which often featured women from the wealthy families of New York. He also headed the Herter Looms, a firm specializing in elegant textiles and tapestries. A successful artist and businessman, Herter divided his time between Long Island and Santa Barbara, California, where he died in 1950.

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Herman Herzog was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1832. He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy, and built a solid reputation for himself in his homeland before immigrating to Philadelphia in 1869. Once in the U.S., Herzog traveled extensively, painting his was across the western states, arriving in California in 1873. His romantic-realist works from this trip included a series of Yosemite Valley paintings. A wise investor, Herzog worked without the pressure to sell his paintings in his lifetime. Herman Herzog died in Philadelphia in 1932, at the age of 100.

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Victor Higgings was born in Indiana in 1884, and studied briefly in Chicago at the Art Institute. Higgins spent the years 1908-1912 studying in Munich, and returned to the states to work in Chicago, where he earned great acclaim for his exhibitions. He was greatly affected by the New York Armory Show in 1913, where he was first exposed to the American Modernism of Marsden Hartley. Following a move to Taos in 1915, Higgins concentrated on near-Cubist paintings of the landscape and Pueblo Indians of the area. Much more influenced by Modernism than his colleagues in Taos, Higgins enjoyed commercial success with a loyal following in Chicago.

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Clarence Hinkle was born in Auburn, California, in 1880, and grew up on a ranch outside Sacramento. Hinkle studied at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, Art Students League in New York, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Academie Colarossi and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he was greatly influenced by Impressionism. He returned to the U.S. in 1912, spending 5 years living and exhibiting his works in San Francisco, before moving to Southern California to teach at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design and Chouinard Institute. Hinkle remained active as a painter and teacher in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, where he died in 1960.

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George Hitchcock is best remembered as one of the better known American expatriate artists who lived and exhibited in Paris at the turn of the century. Though trained as a lawyer, Hitchcock abandoned law to travel to Europe to study and teach in London, the Hague, Dusseldorf, and Paris. Ultimately settling in Holland, he exhibited his works at the Paris Salon in 1887, and was elected to the National Academy of Design in New York.

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Clark Hobart was born in Rockville, Illinois, in 1868, and moved with his family to California as a small boy. He studied at the San Francisco School of Design, the Art Students League, and in Paris. Hobart worked as an art editor in New York from 1903 until his move to Monterey, California, in 1911, where he was able to focus on his Impressionist landscapes and portraits. Hobart remained active in Northern California for the remainder of his life, with homes and studios in San Francisco, Monterey, and Los Gatos.

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Ransom Holdredge was born in New York in 1836 and was a resident of San Francisco by 1860, where he had a studio and supplemented his income by working as a draftsman. In 1874 he left for Europe to study in Paris, where he fell under the influence of the Barbizon artists. Upon his return to San Francisco his highly literal style had become more moody and painterly. He exhibited to acclaim and commercial success for many years, traveling and painting throughout the Northwest. He eventually succumbed to his own demons, dying of alcoholism in Oakland, California, in 1899.

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John Langley Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1902, and moved with this family to California as a young boy. After receiving his degree in engineering at UC Berkeley, Howard enrolled at the California College of Arts & Crafts in nearby Oakland, and the Art Students League in New York. Howard had his first solo exhibition in San Francisco in 1926, and shortly after moved to Monterey where he was active in the Carmel Art Association. A regionalist painter, Howard painted the local docks, and fishermen of early Monterey.

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Grace Carpenter Hudson was born in the northern California town of Ukiah in 1865. She was educated in San Francisco at the School of Design, studying with Virgil Williams and Raymond Yelland. Following her marriage in 1890, Hudson returned to Ukiah, where she painted intimate portraits of the local Pomo Indian children. Eastern audiences were fascinated by her works, which today represent an invaluable record of a vanishing culture.

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