Eliza Barchus
(1857-1959)

Born in Salt Lake City, UT on Dec. 4, 1857. Eliza Lamb married John Barchus in 1880 and settled in Portland, OR where she studied with Wm S. Parrott. Her landscapes of well-known scenic spots of Oregon, Alaska, and California, such as Mt Hood, Mt Shasta, Yosemite, Muir Glacier, and Crater Lake, brought her great renown. Having enjoyed a long painting career, she died in Portland on Dec. 31, 1959 at age 102.

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George Bickerstaff
(1893-1954)

Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys.

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William Ballantine Dorsey
(1942-)

William Dorsey was born in 1942. As a nationally recognized twentieth-century California painter, Dorsey has had work in auctions alongside early California Masters of plein-air painting. Premier collectors of California art own his paintings.

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John Cuthbert Hare
(1908-1978)

He first studied commercial art in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute and also studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. His work is in the collections of the Lowe Art Museum and the Lightner Museum in Florida, and the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts.

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Clyde Leon Keller
(1872-1962)

Known as "Keller, The Art Man," Keller studied painting with Ernst W. Christmas and posted a career of nearly 4,500 paintings with Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt as some of his most presitigous customers.

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John LaGatta
(1894-1976)

John LaGatta enjoyed painting women more than anything else. It worked well for him as an illustrator and as a result, he and his wife were able to live a very comfortable lifestyle. His career was substantially taken with illustrating women for romantic stories, as well as creating exotic fashion illustrations, and eye-catching advertising pictures of his beautifully idealized women.

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Eugene Ludins
(1904-1996)

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Olaf Moller
(1903-1987)

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Olaf Moller studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber, N.C. Wyeth, Arthur Carles, Henry Breckenridge, and Joseph Pearson. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Utah and Idaho and was a member of the Rockport Art Association, the Rocky Mountain Art Association, and the Teton Art Association.

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Norman Mills Price
(1877-1951)

Illustrator, Norman Mills Price was born in Brampton, Ontario (1877) and began his studies at the Ontario School of Art. While in London, he was the founder of Carlton Studios. Price is best known for his depiction of pirates and Vikings.

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Ross Stefan
(1934-1999)

Norman Rockwell was one of his early heroes. Encouraged by Ivan Rosequist, pioneer Arizona art dealer in Tucson, Stefan quit his unproductive activities in the University of Arizona art department and set out on his own as a fine artist.

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Hernando Gonzallo Villa
(1881-1952)

A commercial artist and painter, Hernando Villa had a specialty that was the Old West--landscape, Southwest Indians, and missions, which he did in oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal. But his most famous work is "The Chief," emblem of the Santa Fe Railroad. He also did murals including one for the New Rialto Theater in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Nell Gertrude Walker Warner
(1891-1970)

Nell Walker Warner was born in Richardson County, Nebraska, in 1891. Her art studies were at
the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. She studied with Paul Lauritz and Nicolai Fechin, and curated the Tuesday Afternoon Club in Los Angeles. In 1950 she moved to Carmel, where she died in 1970. She is best remembered for her floral still lifes, and New England harbor scenes.

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