American Impressionism: Hanson Puthuff (7*)

Hanson Puthuff (American Impressionist, 1875 - 1972)

Sespe Canyon, 1924

 Verdugo

Fragment - Superstition Mt.

 Drama of Light, Oil on Canvas. 24 x 30 in

 Basin Mountain

Morning at Montrose

Hanson Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972) was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist painting billboards while painting landscapes in his leisure. In 1926, he abandoned commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions. He is nationally famous for his lyric interpretations of the Southern California deserts. Puthuff died in Corona del Mar on May 12, 1972.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanson_Puthuff