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Lorser Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1898. He took to drawing at an early age, and was first taught by his father. An avowed Modernist, Feitelson was introduced to modern art when his family moved to New York when he was a boy. Attending the 1913 Armory show inspired 7 years of experimentation with Cubism and Futurism. In 1927 he settled in Los Angeles and teamed up with Helen Lundeberg to form a movement known as Post-Surrealism. Feitleson exhibited extensively throughout his long life, and is credited with being a major force in Southern California Modernist art.

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Lockwood de Forest was born in New York in 1850, where he studied with Frederic Church and James Hart. He was a consummate traveler, visiting Egypt, Syria, Greece, and India collecting crafts for U.S. museum collections. A member of the National Academy, de Forest settled in Santa Barbara in 1919, and painted there until his death in 1932. He is best remembered for his desertscapes, and painting of the coast near his California studio.

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A Utah based sculptor of western-theme subjects, works by Edward Fraughton can be found at the Springville Museum in Springville, Utah, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, and the Eiteljorg Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Arthur Hill Gilbert was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, in 1890. Following a stint in the Navy, Gilbert moved to Southern California in 1920 to attend the Otis Art Institute. Following further study in Paris and London, Gilbert settled in Monterey in 1930. That same year he was elected in to the National Academy of Design. Gilbert is best remembered for his Live Oak filled Monterey-area landscapes. Arthur Hill Gilbert died on his ranch near Stockton, California, in 1970.

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A resident of Wyoming, Richard Greeves was born in St. Louis in 1935. Having visited the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming as a young man, he became fascinated with the people and area, and later moved there to purchase the local trading post, which would become his studio. Primarily interested in sculpture, his works are often done on a monumental scale.

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John Hafen was born in Switzerland in 1856, and moved with his family to Utah when he was a boy. Initially a self-taught artist, Hafen did study in Paris at the Academie Julian before returning to Utah. Hafen is best known as an early-Utah landscape and figure painter.

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Roi Clarkson Colman was born in Elgin, Illinois, in 1884. Showing promise at an early age, Colman moved to Chicago at the age of 16, to study with L.H. Yarwood. He furthered his education in Paris, at the Academies Julian and Grand Chaumiere. Colman settled in Southern California around 1913, where he taught at the Santa Ana Academy. Colman was also active in Laguna Beach, Carmel, and San Diego, where he died in 1945. Colman is best remembered for coastal and marine paintings.

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Howard Norton Cook was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1901. His formal art training was at the Art Students League in New York. In 1926, Cook made his first trip in to the Southwest, and was first introduced to Taos, eventually becoming a resident. Twice a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Cook was also a WPA muralist, painting 16 historical frescoes in the lobby of the San Antonio post office. Cook was an intrepid traveler, having painted in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, and Central America.

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Regina Tatum Cooke was born in Corsicana, Texas, in 1902, and was a student of Birger Sandzen at the Broadmoor Art Academy. She was an active painter in Taos, New Mexico, where she was a member of the local Art Association. She is best known for her landscapes and street scenes of early New Mexico.

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Colin Campbell Cooper was born in Philadelphia, and first studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Cooper continued his education in Paris, at the Academies Julien, Vitti, and Delecluse. Cooper is remembered as a great traveler who chronicled his wanderings in his vast collection of watercolors and oils. Eventually settling in Santa Barbara, where he taught at the School of Arts, Cooper lived in Southern California until his death in 1937.

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