Floral Still Life

oil on board, 8" x 9"

Mary Emma Bailey was born in Maine in 1846. She was the wife of photographer A. P. Bailey and by 1880 had settled in Oakland, California. During the 1880s she was a pupil of William Keith. During 1893-1903 she continued to live in Oakland while exhibiting locally as Mary Bailey Reno. By 1903 she was the wife of George R. Child. Her last address was Boston, MA in 1942. Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco), 1881-93; California State Fair, 1884-96; Oakland Industrial Exposition, 1896. Works held: Orange County (CA) Museum.

Grapes

oil on canvas, 15" x 18"

Mercy P. Bausman was born in Pennsylvania in 1831. She was the wife of Jacob Bausman and a resident of Des Moines, Iowa in 1870. By 1880 she was living in Washington, DC, and by 1910 she was an inmate at the King’s Daughters Home for Incurables in Oakland, California. She died there on January 27, 1916. Her rare works include still lifes of fruit.

Still Life

oil on canvas, 14" x 18"

Arthur Beckwith was born in London, England on January 24, 1860, the son of noted watercolorist, Benjamin Beckwith. Arthur studied art with his father and at South Kensington School in London before moving to San Francisco in 1884. For the next 20 years he painted prolifically and created a large body of work, most of which went up in flames in the 1906 disaster. Despondent over his loss, he stopped painting for several years. Settling into a home across the Golden Gate in Greenbrae, he commuted by ferry daily to his studio in San Francisco in the old “Monkey Block” (now the Transamerica Pyramid). Beckwith died there on September 2, 1930. His work includes still lifes, landscapes, and marines. Member: Bohemian Club; Sequoia Club; Marin County Art Ass'n; San Francisco Art Ass'n. Works held: De Young Museum; Bohemian Club; Sequoia Club (San Francisco).

Fruit and Pitcher

watercolor, 12" x 14"

Harry Emmett Bellingham was born in San Francisco, CA on September 26, 1898. He worked for the Stecher-Traung Lithography Company and was a lifelong resident of his native city. He died there on April 3, 1951. Exhibited: Oakland Art Gallery, 1937.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 20" x 27"

Geraldine Rose Birch, a portraitist, muralist, and etcher, was born in Sussex, England on November 12, 1883. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London and with Georges Desvallieres and Prinet in Paris. About 1911 she wed mining engineer Galloway Duncan. She settled in Pasadena about 1919 and soon was a prominent member of the local art colony. In 1932 a fire destroyed her studio with most of her early works. She died in Pasadena on February 8, 1972. Member: California Printmakers Society; Pasadena Art Ass'n; American Federation of Arts. Exhibited: California Art Club, 1920; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1925; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1924; California State Fair, 1926; Provincial Exposition (Victoria BC), 1932 (award); Ainslie Gallery (Pasadena); Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; New York World's Fair, 1939. Works held: Oakland Museum; Episcopal Church (Sierra Madre); California State Library; U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs); Fletcher Aircraft (Rosemead, CA); San Juan Capistrano Mission.

Interior

watercolor, 8" x 10"

Franz Diederich Brandt was born in Pottawattamie, Iowa on October 14, 1904. Brandt was the son of a photographer and began hand tinting his father’s pictures at an early age. He grew up in Boise, Idaho and by the late 1920s he was a commercial artist in Berkeley, California. During the 1930s he moved across the bay to San Francisco where he taught art in the public schools for 27 years. He died there on May 28, 1989.

Floral Still Life

oil on board, 26" x 24"

Rubin Cornelius Brasz was born in Polk County, Wisconsin on August 16, 1886. By 1930 he had joined his brother Arnold in Los Angeles. The two artists operated an interior decorating business during the Depression. He died in Los Angeles on October 12, 1955. Rubin's paintings are very rare. 

Still Life

oil on canvas, 15" x 19"

Samuel Marsden Brookes was born on March 8, 1816 in Newington Green, Middlesex, England. After immigrating with his family to the United States in 1833, he settled near Chicago which was then only a small frontier town. There he received his first and only art instruction from two migrant artists in 1841. The years 1845 and 1846 were spent in England copying pictures at the National Gallery and Hampton Court Palace. He then worked in Chicago and Milwaukee where he was active with the American Art Union. He moved to San Francisco in 1862 and spent the last thirty years of his life there. Brookes was a founder of both the Bohemian Club and the San Francisco Art Ass'n, and served as first vice-president of the latter. While maintaining a home in the Mission District at 34 Prospect Street, he gave art lessons at his studio at 611 Clay Street which he shared with his close friend Edwin Deakin. Brookes enjoyed great financial success during his lifetime with his paintings commanding as much as $10,000 each from such patrons as E. B. Crocker and Mrs. Mark Hopkins. His early work in the Midwest was mostly portraits; however, in California he gained national renown for his still lifes of fish, flowers, fruit, and birds. Considered to be the finest American still life specialist of the 19th century, his paintings are infinitely detailed and meticulously realistic. Brookes died in San Francisco on January 21, 1892. Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco), 1869, 1871 (gold medal); Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), 1876; California State Fair, 1879-90; California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894. Works held: De Young Museum; California Historical Society; Brooklyn Museum; Wisconsin Historical Society; Crocker Museum (Sacramento); Oakland Museum; Nevada Museum (Reno).

Still Life

oil on board, 18" x 24"

Millie L. Burrall was born in Virginia City, Nevada on August 27, 1865. The Burrall family settled in Napa, California in 1877. Millie grew up there and attended public schools. When quite young she began studying painting in San Francisco with Eva Withrow and others. About 1890 she settled in Oakland but commuted by ferry to San Francisco where she was active in the local art scene. In 1906 she married Charles Wood and continued to live in Oakland until her demise on February 25, 1944. A still-life specialist, she is best known for her exquisitely rendered yellow and red roses. Exhibited: Oakland Industrial Expo, 1896; Mark Hopkins Institute, 1904, 1906, 1910; San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1904-12; Starr King Fraternity (Oakland), 1905; Berkeley Art Ass'n, 1908; Calif. State Fairs. Works held: Santa Cruz City Museum.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 9” x 12”

Charles Joseph Carlson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden of American parents on October 20, 1860. At age nine he came to the United States with his family and settled in San Francisco. He began drawing as a child and at age fourteen entered the School of Design where he studied under Virgil Williams. A brilliant student, at seventeen he was appointed by the school’s committee to assist Professor Williams in teaching. In 1885 he spent one year as a teacher at the Sacramento School of Design, but then returned to San Francisco to devote more time to portraiture at his studio at 523 Pine Street. Carlson died in San Francisco of syphilis at Laguna Honda Hospital on August 25, 1929. As well as portraits, his work also includes landscapes and still lifes. Exhibited: School of Design, 1876 (silver medal), 1877, 1882 (gold medals); California State Fair, 1886 (silver medal); Mechanics’ Institute Fair, 1884, 1890 (premiums); San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1889; Mark Hopkins Institute, 1900; Bohemian Club, 1902. Works held: Bohemian Club; California Historical Society.

Floral Still Life

oil on board, 18” x 24”

John Anthony Conner was born in Franklin Grove, Illinois on January 5, 1892, a descendant of Susan B. Anthony and portraitist Gilbert Stuart. Orphaned at four, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Adams, Massachusetts. His grandfather encouraged his art and fitted out a small room off his study for a studio. His first studies were of steel engravings, wodcuts, and silhouettes used to illustrate a book his grandfather was compiling of the Anthony family. The budding young artist spent several years in the art department of National Advertisers and later traveled in the interest of outdoor displays of eastern corporations. Following service in the United States Army during World War One, he married and moved to Los Angeles. He was a resident of Eagle Rock and employed in the art departments of MGM and other movie studios. Although he painted portraits, and cowboy-Indian genre, his forte was desert landscapes of the Mojave and Coachella Valley. Conner died in Hollywood, California on March 13, 1971. Exhibited: Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles), 1931, 1935 (solos); Eagle Rock Artists in 1931-32; Bullocks (Los Angeles), 1956.

Apples, 1888

oil on canvas, 10” x 12”

Sarah E. Bender was born in Washington, DC on July 10, 1852. She settled in San Francisco in 1865. When the School of Design opened in 1874, she was one of the first pupils to enroll and was greatly influenced there by Virgil Williams. Curiously, some of her 1890s paintings are signed with her married name; however, it was not until 1904 when she wed Harold DeWolfe. Probably a common law marriage. The earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed her studio at 509 Sacramento Street taking with it many of her early works. She later had a studio on Hyde Street and a home at 3400 Laguna Street where she died on June 15, 1935. Her oils of fruit and flowers qualify her as one of California’s finest still-life specialists. Member: San Francisco Art Ass’n; San Francisco Women Artists. Exhibited: Mechanics’ Institute, 1883-95; California State Fair, 1883, 1902; California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894; San Francisco Guild of Arts & Crafts, 1904; Sorosis Club, 1913. Works held: Oakland Museum; California Historical Society.

Apples, 1905

oil on board, 6” x 8”

Anna Elizabeth Mathews was born in Iowa on January 28, 1861. She moved to San Francisco in 1888. After her marriage to Charles Doty, she studied at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute and was active in the local art scene. Following the disaster of 1906, she moved down the peninsula to Menlo Park into a home on Woodside Road where she remained until her demise on November 27, 1938. A still life specialist, her works are rare. Member: San Francisco Art Ass’n.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 20” x 24”

Darwin William Duncan was born in St James, Minnesota on July 28, 1905. He moved to California with his family as a child of five. He studied landscape painting with Edgar Payne and Sam Hyde Harris, and figure painting with Christian von Schneidau. For 32 years he was a draftsman for the Richfield Oil Company. For 16 years he taught painting classes at Orange Coast College and lectured widely in the Southwest, Hawaii, Canada, and Mexico. He made his home in Ramona, CA until his death on July 19, 2002. A plein air painter, his work includes landscapes of Orange County, the High Sierra, and the desert near his home. Member: Spectrum Club (Long Beach); Desert Art Ass’n; Laguna Beach Art Ass’n; Southland Art Ass’n. Works held: Baldwin Manor (Maui, Hawaii); Huntington Beach (CA) Civic Center; Sherman Foundation Library (Corona del Mar).

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 16” x 20”

Darwin William Duncan was born in St James, Minnesota on July 28, 1905. He moved to California with his family as a child of five. He studied landscape painting with Edgar Payne and Sam Hyde Harris, and figure painting with Christian von Schneidau. For 32 years he was a draftsman for the Richfield Oil Company. For 16 years he taught painting classes at Orange Coast College and lectured widely in the Southwest, Hawaii, Canada, and Mexico. He made his home in Ramona, CA until his death on July 19, 2002. A plein air painter, his work includes landscapes of Orange County, the High Sierra, and the desert near his home. Member: Spectrum Club (Long Beach); Desert Art Ass’n; Laguna Beach Art Ass’n; Southland Art Ass’n. Works held: Baldwin Manor (Maui, Hawaii); Huntington Beach (CA) Civic Center; Sherman Foundation Library (Corona del Mar).

Floral Still Life

oil on board, 14” x 18”

Rudolph Fredrick Folger was born in Reeding, Pennsylvania on July 25, 1865 of German parents. He was a resident of San Francisco in 1902. Upon settling in Los Angeles in 1932, he was an administrator for Southern Pacific Hospital until a few years before his death on June 13, 1951. This well-executed still life is one of his few extant paintings.

Still Life

oil on board, 16” x 20”

Victor Clyde Forsythe was born in Orange, California on August 24, 1885. He spent his youth on a ranch in the Coachella Valley. He was a pupil of Louise Garden MacLeod at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design, and in 1904 painted his first western landscape while on a train from California to New York. He further studied with Frank V. DuMond at the Art Students League while working as a staff artist for the New York World. While in New York, he became nationally famous as the creator of cartoons and comic strips such as Way Out West and Vic. During World War One he painted many war posters including the And They Thought We Couldn’t Fight. Forsythe introduced an unknown artist named Norman Rockwell to Saturday Evening Post and was a close friend of Frank Tenney Johnson. Having gained financial success, in 1920 he and Johnson moved to Alhambra, California where they shared a studio. With their paintings in demand, they established the Biltmore Art Gallery in Los Angeles. After returning to California, Forsythe immersed himself in the lore of the West and often lived in ghost towns while on painting forays. His subjects included desert scenes with prospectors and their burros as well as cowboy genre. His unique style of painting the sky and cloud formations became the identifying feature of his landscapes. Forsythe died in Pasadena on May 24, 1962. Member: Salmagundi Club; California Art Club; Allied Art Ass’n; Painters of the West. Exhibited: Painters of the West, 1927 (bronze medal); Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 (Gold Rush). Works held: Phoenix Municipal Art Gallery

Yellow Roses

oil on board, 20” x 24”

Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst was born in Crete, Nebraska on February 10, 1903. The Enoch family moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1917. Helen studied at the University of Oregon. In 1923 she married realtor Fred Gleiforst and settled in Los Angeles. Other than a brief period with Nicolai Fechin, she remained a self-taught artist. An Impressionist and brilliant colorist, her oeuvre includes 500 canvases of floral still lifes and landscapes. She died in Los Angeles, California on May 28, 1997. Exhibited: Ebell Society; Beverly Hills & Westwood Women’s Clubs; Clearwater Jr. High School, 1936.

Floral Still Life

oil on board, 20” x 24”

Robert M. Harris was born in Utah on December 18, 1893. By 1930 he had settled in Los Angeles. A wealthy oil producer, his hobby was painting landscapes of the rolling hills of California, floral still lifes, and views of the Arroyo Seco. He died there on September 9, 1976. Exhibited: Businessmen’s Art Club of Los Angeles, 1936-58.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 15” x 18”

Robert M. Harris was born in Utah on December 18, 1893. By 1930 he had settled in Los Angeles. A wealthy oil producer, his hobby was painting landscapes of the rolling hills of California, floral still lifes, and views of the Arroyo Seco. He died there on September 9, 1976. Exhibited: Businessmen’s Art Club of Los Angeles, 1936-58.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 20” x 24”

Henry Hengstler was born in Germany on May 28, 1873. He was a resident of San Diego in the 1920s. He died in Los Angeles on October 1, 1950. His work includes portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes. Exhibited: San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1928.

Yellow Roses

oil on board, 11” x 13”

Margaret Cox Herrick was born in San Francisco, CA on June 24, 1865, the daughter of artist William F. Herrick. Margaret studied at the local School of Design under Virgil Williams, Emil Carlsen, and Arthur Mathews, as well as in the studios of William Keith, Frederick Yates, and Mary Curtis Richardson. She further studied at Art Students League in New York City and in Europe. After the earthquake of 1906, she moved across the bay to a home in Piedmont at 312 Pacific Avenue and maintained a studio in Oakland at 1302 12th Street. A spinster, Herrick died in Piedmont on June 16, 1950. Working in oil and watercolor, she produced landscapes, portraits, figure studies, and still lifes. Exhibited: Piedmont Art Gallery (Oakland), 1907; California Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1904-23; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; Society for Sanity in Art, California Palace of Legion of Honor, 1940. Works held: Oakland YWCA (lunette); First Congregational Church, Oakland (portrait of Reverend J. K. McLean); Kansas City Convention Hall (portrait of Herbert Hoover); Veterans Home, Livermore, (portrait of Charles Lindbergh); California Historical Society.

Roses

oil on canvas, 10” x 18”

William Hubacek was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 15, 1871. He came to San Francisco by covered wagon as a child of five and began painting at age twelve. His art studies were at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Yelland, Mathews, and Joullin. His first studio was in the family home in the Mission District at 823 York Street. After continuing his art training in France, Germany, and Italy, he returned to San Francisco and taught at the Mark Hopkins. A great portion of his earlier works was lost when his studio was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. In 1938 he moved down the peninsula to San Bruno where he maintained a studio in his home at 241 San Luis Avenue. His many students from the surrounding area called him “The Old Master.” Hubacek died in San Bruno on June 14, 1958. A highly competent painter of realistic still lifes and landscapes, his work reflects a thorough academic training. Member: San Francisco Art Ass’n; Peninsula Art Ass’n. Exhibited: World’s Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; California Midwinter Int’l Expo, 1894; Mark Hopkins Inst., 1898, 1906; San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1903-04; Panama Pacific Int’l Expo, 1915; San Mateo County Fairs; California State Fairs; Golden Gate Int’l Expo, 1939; New York World’s Fair, 1939; San Bruno Public Library, 1958 (retrospective). Works held: San Bruno Public Library; California Historical Society; Oakland Museum; Orange County (CA) Museum.

Still Life

oil on board, 14” x 17”

Edward Jabes was born on February 16, 1903 in Kansas. He was a professional singer who painted in his leisure. He appears to have moved to the San Francisco Bay area at a young age. He lived in Kensington until his demise in nearby Berkeley on July 4, 1983. His work includes still lifes.

Still Life, 1894

oil on canvas, 10” x 12”

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Still Life

oil on board, 16” x 20”

Ruth H. Andrews Lindsay was born in Ada, Ohio on November 23, 1888. She studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League in New York City, and the Royal Academy of Brussels. The wife of banker, Harry Lindsay, by the early 1920s she had settled in Pasadena into a home at 1025 Topeka and was active in the local art scene through the early 1960s. She died in Pasadena on January 26, 1982. Exhibited: California Art Club, 1923-32; Laguna Beach Art Ass’n, 1930s; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1934-35; Ebell Club (Los Angeles), 1938, 1949; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1938-45 (awards); Pasadena Arts & Crafts Club, 1941; Women Painters of the West, 1949; Pasadena Museum, 1955 (award); Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles), 1957.

Still Life

oil on Canvas, 20” x 24”

Stanton Macdonald-Wright was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 8, 1890. A problem child, Stanton ran away from home on a windjammer. When his father became manager of the Arcadia Hotel on the coast at Santa Monica, he moved with his family to California in 1900. His art studies were begun locally with Joseph Greenbaum. He soon hyphenated his last name with Macdonald to avoid being ask if he was related to the architect or the aviators. In 1909 he journeyed to Paris for further study at the Sorbonne, Académies Julian, Beaux Arts, and Colarossi. In Paris he and artist Morgan Russell developed an art style which they termed Synchromism in which color generates form. They co-exhibited in Paris and Munich in 1913 and New York in 1914. Upon returning to the United States in 1916, MacDonald-Wright was active on the East Coast until his return to Los Angeles in 1919. He then turned from Synchromism to a more oriental approach to art, and produced the first full-length stop-motion film ever made in full color. He was director of the Art Students League of Los Angeles from 1923-30. During the 1930s he served as regional advisor for seven states on the Works Progress Administration art program. From 1942-52 he taught oriental aesthetics, art history, and iconography at UCLA. Upon retirement, he devoted full time to painting, dividing his time between Kyoto, Japan and his home in Santa Monica. His work alternated throughout his career between pure abstractions and figural representations. Eugen Neuhaus put it succinctly in his History and Ideals of American Art, “Wright apparently attempts to correlate music with painting, as indicated in his emphasis upon strongly moving dynamic rhythms clothed in the hues of the spectrum.” A pioneer in modern art, MacDonald-Wright died in Los Angeles on August 22, 1973. Exhibited: American Modernists (Los Angeles), 1920; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1927, 1932, 1956; North Carolina Museum, 2001 (retrospective). Works held: Corcoran Gallery (Washington, DC); Art Institue of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; Metropolitan Museum; Carnegie Institute; Detroit Institute of Arts; Boston Museum; Oakland Museum; Museum of Modern Art (New York City); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); San Diego Museum; Pasadena Art Institute; Orange County (California) Museum; Santa Monica City Hall, High School and Public Library; Whitney Museum (New York City); Thomas Edison Jr. High School (Los Angeles).

Still Life, 1946

oil on board, 22” x 26”

Arthur M. Paulus was born in Illinois on April 25, 1889. He had a florist shop in Chicago until 1930 and the next year moved to Los Angeles where he worked as both florist and artist. He later retired to San Diego, CA and died there on Jan. 17, 1967. His paintings are rare.

Still Life

oil on canvas, 20” x 24”

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Still Life

oil on canvas, 16” x 18”

George Westfall Reynolds was born in Dyersville, Iowa on April 10, 1887. He established a dentist office in Minneapolis in 1911. A veteran of World War One, he often spent long periods of each year in southern California. He studied painting there at the Scripps Institute under Henry McFee and privately with Otto Schneider. He had a home in Los Angeles during the 1920s and by the late 1930s had a studio in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Reynolds died in La Jolla, California on January 31, 1966. Member: Laguna Beach Art Ass’n; California Art Club; La Jolla Art Ass’n; San Diego Men’s Art Institute. Works held: Orange County (CA) Museum.

Still Life

oil on canvas, 12” x 16”

Benjamin Willard Sears was born in Guilford, Connecticut on May 16, 1846. His father had come to California in 1852 and followed placer mining in the vicinity of Sonora. Ben and his two brothers made the trip to Sonora via Panama in 1862. He came to San Francisco in 1868 and worked as a photographer in several galleries until the early 1870s when he switched to oil painting. He spent a great deal of time in the studios of various painters where he may have learned to paint by observing the techniques of these artists. He left San Francisco in 1878 and returned to Sonora, working for a short while as a sketch artist for the United States Signal Coast Survey which took him all over northern California. While in San Francisco Sears had painted mostly nocturnes and inshore marine views, but after his return to Sonora, he concentrated on landscapes of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite and Tuolumne County. Poor and with a wife and five children to support, Sears was often compelled to paint on what surfaces were available to him for want of canvases (i.e., door panels, pie tins, etc.) The signature on his paintings was most often the letter B overlayed with the letter S; in his later years his work became paler and bluer. He died on a sketching trip in Pacific Grove, California on November 18, 1905 and was buried in Sonora. Approximately 200 of his paintings are extant. Member: San Francisco Art Ass’n; Olympic Club. Exhibited: Newhall & Co. (San Francisco), 1877 (solo); San Francisco, 1882; Mark Hopkins Institute, 1903; Alaska-Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909; Society of California Pioneers, 1965. Works held: Oakland Museum; California Historical Society; Society of California Pioneers; California State Library; Tuolumne County Historical Society.

Floral Still Life

oil on canvas, 26” x 34”

John Christopher Smith was born in Ireland on May 24, 1891. He arrived in the United States about 1903. Following service in the United States Armed Forces during World War One, he studied art in New York City with Robert Henri. After a brief time in Chicago, he moved to Los Angeles in 1920. By 1926 he was exhibiting regularly at the Wilshire Galleries and the Pasadena Art Institute. Smith was a close friend of artist Franz Bischoff with whom he sketched and co-exhibited. Smith’s reputation was enhanced by association with this prestigious painter. The two artists painted together in Zion National Park in 1928 as well as in Cambria and San Pedro. During 1929 Bischoff died, the stock market crashed, the Wilshire Galleries closed, and survival became difficult for Smith. He had to earn his living as an interior decorator and even then was ill with tuberculosis. He succumbed to the disease in Los Angeles on June 12, 1943. His paintings are characterized by a clear, bright palette and bold, heavy brush strokes. As well as landscapes, his subject matter often included people in various activities such as fishermen, sun bathers, industrial scenes, etc. He also painted a few Indian portraits from a sketching trip in Arizona and New Mexico. In his portraits one can see the influence of Henri. Works held: Fleischer Museum (Scottsdale).

Roses

oil on canvas, 13” x 17”

Louisa Tomlinson was born in Spain on March 24, 1866. By 1880 she had settled in San Francisco. In 1890 she married George Ernest Bridgett and remained in San Francisco until her death on December 2, 1948. Exhibited: Mechanics’ Institute (SF), 1885 (crayon portraits).

Fruit Still Life

oil on board, 16” x 24”

Gertrude M. Zimdars was born in Prussia on July 10, 1868. The Zimdars family immigrated to the United States in 1871. After a few years in Michigan, the family moved to northern California about 1877. Gertrude studied at the School of Design and worked in San Francisco as a freelance artist for many years. A spinster, she died in Sonoma, California on October 2, 1930. Exhibited: Mechanics’ Institute (San Francisco), 1897; San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1898; California State Fair, 1901.