Alice Chittenden was born in Brockport, New York, in 1859, and moved to San Francisco at an early age. Encouraged in her art studies, Chittenden began studying at the San Francisco School of Design in 1877. Chittended would remain a life-long resident of San Francisco, eventually accepting a teaching post at the School of Design, where she taught for 40 years. Known for her floral still lifes, Chittenden once took on the task of creating several hundred oil on paper paintings cataloging the wildflowers of California. For more information on Alice Chittenden and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Popularly referred to at times in his homeland as the “Remington of the Canadian West,” and “the dean of Canadian historical artists,” John Innes is known for his paintings of Indians, cowboys, wildlife, and the early “Pioneer West” of Canada. Innes was born in 1863 in London Ontario, and was educated in Ontario and in England, where he excelled in design, drafting, and painting.

Upon returning to Canada, Innes headed west, blazing a trail ahead of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His artistic ability and adventurous spirit enabled him to join a survey party in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, where he created maps and sketches with Ross, Mann and Holt. Following his service with the company, Innes took up ranching and horse wrangling. In 1885 while riding as a cowboy on his own Alberta ranch, he drew cartoons for various periodicals, and later published his own newspaper in Banff titled “Mountain Echoes.”

After twelve years in the West, Innes was back in Toronto where he worked as a writer and illustrator for Canadian Magazine, and exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists. In 1905 he traveled to Vancouver by pack train, painting en route. Innes’ desire was to create a series of works depicting an era of Canadian history when the Indian, fur trader and buffalo held undisputed reign, before the coming of the cowboy and the farmer. The resulting series, “Epic of the West,” exhibited throughout the country, was purchased by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and now hangs in Winnipeg.

Before finally settling in Vancouver, BC, Innes enjoyed a five-year stint as a staff artist for the Hearst Newspapers in NYC. Remembered as a true bohemian and frontiersman, Innes once said, “In the cow camps, in the lodges of the long-dead chiefs…on the mountain tops, or out on the Prairies criss-crossed with buffalo trails, I have learned the lore of Western Canada.”

Born in Vienna to American parents, Rowena Meeks Abdy moved to San Francisco at the age of three, and in her late teens began her art studies at the Mark Hopkins Institute, under Arthur Mathews. Abdy was drawn to the history and of the Monterey Peninsula, where she lived for several years. While in Monterey she continued her studies with Armin Hansen, frequently including in her works the historic missions and structures from the Spanish era. Rowena Abdy died in San Francisco on August 8, 1945. For more information on Rowena Meeks Abdy and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Belle Baranceanu was born in Chicago in 1902, and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. Baranceanu was active in Chicago until she moved to Southern California in 1933, where she executed many murals for the Public Works Art Project. Baranceanu also taught at the La Jolla School of Arts and Crafts, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, and the Frances W. Parker School. For more information on Belle Baranceanu and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

An accomplished 19th Century painter of English landscapes, river scenes, fishermen, and cattle, Thomas Stanley Barber was active in London, England, where he died in 1899. For more information on Thomas Stanley Barber and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Ernest Batchleder was a native of New Hampshire, who studied at the Massachusetts Normal School, Birmingham School, and the Harvard Summer School of Design. Upon moving to California, Batchelder joined the department of Arts & Crafts at the Throop Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena in 1902. Eventually opening his own school in Pasadena in 1909, Batchelder enjoyed considerable success designing interiors, furniture and ceramics, until the Depression effectively ended his business. E. A. Batchelder died in Pasadena in 1957. For more information on Ernest A. Batchelder and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

John J. Baumgartner was a self taught painter who settled in San Francisco from his native Milwaukee in 1894. A landscape artist known for his pastoral works and a member of the Bohemian Club, Baumgartner was an active member of the San Francisco area art scene for over 50 years. For more information on John J. Baumgartner and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, he was a turn-of-the century sculptor known for his Indian figures including Buffalo Hunt in Washington Square, New York City and Sioux Chief Crazy Horse as the Noble Savage. He was among a group of artists saddened by the vanishing frontier. For more information on Theodore Baur and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Francis Beaugureau was born in Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In WW II, Beaugureau called on his experiences to depict graphic paintings of air-to-air combat. Following the war, he supported himself through portrait work as well as western themed landscapes. For more information on Francis Beaugereau and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

One of the most famous names in American Art, Thomas Hart Benton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academies Collarosi and Julien in Paris. Famous for his stylized works of the American Scene painters, Benton completed several large scale murals for public spaces in New York and Missouri. While he experimented with Impressionist, Neo- Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Synchromist styles, Benton is most closely associated with his depictions of the ordinary man in American life. For more information on Thomas Hart Benton and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website