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Randall Davey was born in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1887, and studied at Cornell University, Europe, and with Robert Henri. A noted art instructor, Davey held teaching positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Kansas City Art Institute, Broadmoor Art Academy, and the University of New Mexico. A lover of horses and horse racing, Davey often used them as subjects in his works.

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Francis DeErdeley was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1904, where he attended the Royal Academy of Art. Further study followed in Spain and France before DeErdeley arrived in Los Angeles in 1944, where he taught at USC, and was dean of the Pasadena Museum School. He is best remembered for his modernist mixed media works, and for genre paintings made on trips to Mexico.

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Gerard Curtis Delano was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1890. Delano studied at the Swaine Free School of Design, the Art Students League, and the Grand Central School of Art, from which he emerged a successful illustrator. In 1919 Delano first traveled west to work on a ranch in Colorado, and settled there in 1920. Making trips to Navajo country, Delano became fascinated by Native American subject matter. Delano would become a scholar and devote himself to accurate scenes of Native Americans against the dramatic Southwest landscape.

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Gideon Jacques Denny was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1830, and arrived in San Francisco with the Gold Rush in 1849. Finding work on the San Francisco docks taxing, Denny left for art studies in Milwaukee, with Samuel Marsden Brookes. Denny returned to establish a studio in San Francisco after 6 years and exhibited to favorable reviews. Though he painted occasional landscapes and portraits, Denny specialized in works featuring shipping activity, a subject that fascinated him since boyhood. He was also a inveterate traveler. His works done on travels to South America and Hawaii are highly sought.

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Carl Oscar Borg was born in Sweden, and apprenticed to the English artist George Johansen at the age of 15. Working as a seaman, Borg jumped ship in San Francisco in 1901. Without funds, he walked the railway, some 450 miles, to Los Angeles, ultimately meeting William Wendt, who would teach him painting techniques. Having shown great promise, Borg was sponsored by Phoebe Hearst to study in Paris, and Rome. It was Mrs. Hearst who encouraged Borg to paint Native American subjects, a theme for which the artist is most remembered. Borg also taught in art schools in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, where he died in 1947.

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Jessie Arms Botke was a native of Chicago, where she studied at the Art Institute. In 1911, she was employed with Herter Looms in New York, where she also assisted Albert Herter with a mural project at the St. Francis Hotel. In 1915, she returned to Chicago where she met and married the artist, Cornelis Botke. The Botkes moved to Carmel in 1919, and after an extended trip to Europe, settled on a ranch in Santa Paula. Jessie Botke is best known for her bold decorative works of exotic birds. Very much inspired by Japanese screens, Botke often utilized gold-leaf as background for her oil compositions.

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A bold and prolific modernist painter, Burton Boundey studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smith Academy, and in New York with Robert Henri and George Bellows. Boundey moved to Monterey, California in 1927, and the studio he founded quickly became a meeting spot for local artists. Deeply involved and committed to the local art communities, Boundey was a teacher in the Carmel Art Institute, and a President of the Carmel Art Association.

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Nicholas Brigante was born in Southern Italy in 1895. His family immigrated to the U.S. in two years later, settling in Los Angeles. Brigante found work as a sign painter, and took art lessons from the southern California artist Hanson Puthuff, who was also a billboard painter. Following service in the U.S. Army in WW I, Brigante returned to Los Angeles, beginning a friendship with the Modernist artist, Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Brigante enjoyed a long exhibition history in Southern California. His works reflect keen interest in experimenting throughout his long career.

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Samuel Marsden Brookes was born in Middlesex, England, in 1816, and immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1833. Settling in Chicago, S.M. Brookes was a self-taught artist. Moving to San Francisco around 1862, Brookes was a founding member of the Bohemian Club and the San Francisco Art Association. Sharing a studio with Edwin Deakin, Brookes enjoyed tremendous success in his lifetime, both as an artist and teacher. He achieved national fame for his meticulous still-lifes, which were very popular among the wealthiest San Franciscans. Samuel Marsden Brookes died in San Francisco in 1892.

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Benjamin Brown was born in Marion, Arkansas, in 1865, and studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. Further study was in Paris at the Academie Julian. Brown was active in the American South upon completing his studies, specializing in portraits and still-lifes. Moving to Pasadena in 1896, Brown quickly saw the potential and changed his artistic focus to landscape painting. Brown is best remembered for his Impressionist renderings of the Sierra Mountains and poppy-filled spring meadows. Benjamin Brown died in Pasadena in 1942.

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