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Hanson Duvall Puthuff was born in 1875 in Waverly, Missouri. After studying at the
Chicago Art Institute, he moved to Colorado for art training in 1893 at the University
of Denver Art School and then the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He was an
established pictorial artist when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1903, where he worked
for the next twenty-three years as a commercial artist, primarily painting billboards as
well as a theater scene painter. He also was a significant teacher of private art classes.
His great love, however, was "plein aire" landscape painting, which he took up full time
in 1926. In addition to his own artistic achievements, Puthuff was an activist in the art
community. He was assisted in the formation of the two most important artists
organizations of the period, the California Art Club and the Art Students League of
Los Angeles. He won numerous awards including a Diploma from the Alaska-Yukon
Exposition in 1892 and Silver Medals at the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. He
was a member of numerous clubs, including the California Art Club, the Laguna Beach
Art Association, the Los Angeles Watercolor Society, the Pasadena Society of Artists,
the Salmagundi Club of New York, the San Francisco Art Association, and the Southern
States Art Association, and the Southern States Art League.
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