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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Franz Bischoff was born in Austria, where he studied at a crafts school, specializing in painting and porcelain. Emigrating to the United States in 1885, Bischoff worked in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, ultimately setting up Bischoff Schools of Ceramic Art in New York and Dearborn. Arriving in Pasadena in 1908, Bischoff established a home and studio along the Arroyo, bringing with him a reputation as one of the finest porcelain artists in America. Once in California, Bischoff turned his attentions to landscape painting. His best known works are of the Arroyo near his home, California wildflowers, and the Monterey Peninsula.

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Emil Bisttram was born in Hungary in 1895, and came to the U.S. at the age of 11. He studied in New York at the Cooper School of Art, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design. Bisttram was a successful illustrator and art instructor before leaving New York for the Southwest in 1930, where he founded the Taos School of Art in 1931. A strong voice for Modernism, Bisttram co-founded the Transcendentalist School of painters, a group which included Agnes Pelton. He is also remembered as an accomplished muralist, having studied the medium in Mexico with Diego Rivera.

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