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(1864-1933) Painter and illustratorjoseph Birren was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1864. Birren studied in Philadelphia, New York, and with Benjamin-Constant, Courtois, and Falguiere in Paris. During the 1920s, he maintained studio-homes in both Chicago and Laguna Beach, California. By 1927 he had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where his work was well received by the local press. Birren died in Milwaukee, Wyoming on August 4, 1933. Known for his atmospheric landscapes, his work includes depictions of Southern California and Yosemite. Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1924. Works held: Monterey Peninsula Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington University; Pasadena Museum; Luxembourg Museum, Paris. .

Flora Schofield Painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schoenfield (Schofield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. Schoenfield exhibited widely in Paris, Chicago and Provincetow

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Marcus Waterman Marcus Waterman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1834. He graduated from Brown University in 1855, and from 1857-'70, he worked in New York, where he was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1861. In 1874 he opened a studio in Boston, where an exhibition of his works was held in 1878, previous to his departure for Europe. He visited Algeria in 1879 and 1883, and Spain in 1882, and went abroad again in 1884. His landscapes include "Gulliver in Lilliput," which was at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, in 1876 ; "The Roc's Egg " (1886) ; "The Journey to the City of Brass" (1888); and numerous American landscape scenes and Arabian subjects. He passed in 1914.

Doris Lindo Lewis Spring Progress, circa 1934 oil on canvas16 x 22" signed lower right.

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