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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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Clark Hulings was born in 1922, and raised in New York, where he studied at the Art Students League. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 1957, Hulings is a major force in western genre painting, and is also an accomplished portraitist and illustrator.

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Born Harry Shapiro, Harry Jackson grew up in Chicago, before running away to Wyoming at the age of 14, finding work as a ranch hand. He was encouraged in art by an early teacher, and by his peers in Wyoming, and by 1940 had returned to Chicago to attend the Art Institute, the Frederick Mizen Academy, and the Academy of Fine Arts. Following WW II, Jackson moved to New York, befriended Jackson Pollock, and experimented with Abstract Expressionism. In 1858, while on a trip to Italy, Jackson began working with sculpture, and again painted in a more representational style. His studio is located in Cody, Wyoming, where he occasionally takes on monumental projects such as his famous 6-ton, 21 foot John Wayne.

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Helena Dunlap was born in Los Angeles, California in 1876. She was very well studied, having attended the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Paris. Returning to Los Angeles in 1911, Dunlap exhibited her Modernist paintings, earning awards throughout California. Helena Dunlap died in Whittier, California, in 1955, where she kept a studio on her orange ranch.

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Paul Dyck was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1917. At a very early age, Dyck was sent to Europe to be apprenticed to an uncle, who was a successful artist. By the age of 15, he was on his own and studying at the Munich Academy. Following service in WW II, Dyck settled in Arizona, becoming a rancher and painting western subjects. His preferred medium is egg tempera with high glazes.

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Charlie Dye was born in Canon City, Colorado, in 1906. He worked as a cowboy in Colorado, Arizona, and California before attending the Art Institute of Chicago in 1927. Dye then headed to New York where he enjoyed commercial success as an illustrator. Feeling there was a need for quality western art, Dye moved to Denver in where he was a partner in the Colorado Institute of Art. In 1960 he gave up teaching and illustration work and moved to Sedona, Arizona, enjoying more success as a cowboy-western genre painter. While in Arizona Dye helped found the Cowboy Artists of America.

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William John Edmonson was born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1868. Edmondson studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Paris at the Academie Julian. Upon his return to the states, Edmondson spent the majority of his career in Cleveland before moving to Southern California in 1950. His oeuvre includes still lifes, landscapes, and finely executed figuratives. William John Edmondson died in Pasadena in 1966.

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Nick Eggenhofer was grew up in Germany, where he was fascinated with the subject of the American West. In 1913 he moved with his family to New York, and three years later entered art classes at the Cooper Union. Eggenhofer established a successful illustration studio in New Jersey, staying there until his move to Cody, Wyoming in 1966. He is best known for the historical accuracy of his frontier subjects.

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Fremont Ellis was born in Virginia City, Montana, in 1897. Ellis had no formal education as a child, and began painting as a young boy. Except for 3 months spent at the Art Students League in New York, Ellis was a self-taught painter. In 1915 he moved to Los Angeles with the intention of learning optometry. This lasted only 2 years before he quit to pursue his art full-time. From 1920 on Ellis would spend the majority of his time in Santa Fe, and from there he would travel the southwest on painting expeditions. His works were popular in Santa Fe, as well as Los Angeles, where he exhibited.

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