Creator Record
Metadata
Name (Artist/Photographer/Author) |
Puthuff, Hanson Duvall |
Role |
Artist |
Dates of birth and death |
Artist's Nationality Dates: American, 1875-1972 |
Nationality |
American |
Places of residence |
Raised in Missouri and Colorado, he studied at the Chicago Arts Institute. He began his professional career in Illinois painting murals in the city hall and local churches. For nine years he worked as a sign painter in Denver. In 1903 Puthuff settled in Los Angeles to work for the Wilshire Advertising Firm. Except for a year spent in Chicago in 1906, where he worked for the Sasmun Studio as a set painter along with Victor Higgins (1884-1949), Puthuff remained in California. |
Occupation |
Hanson Duvall Puthuff was an early member of what is now known as the "Eucalyptus School" of California landscape painters. |
Notes |
Until 1926 he supported himself as a commercial artist, painting billboards, theatrical advertisements and backdrops, and museum dioramas. His major work at this time included commissions for the decorations of Homer Laughlin’s new theater in Long Beach c. 1915, the backdrops for the first habitat displays installed at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art in 1924, backgrounds for model displays of the Sante Fe Railroad in various cities around the country until the 1940s, and the panoramas for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial in the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1938. Puthuff executed easel paintings throughout the time he worked as a commercial artist. Before he came to California his work largely consisted of figure paintings, but after his move to Los Angeles Puthuff became so enamored with the countryside that he became a landscape specialist. His late paintings were mostly of the La Crescenta area around his home, of the Sierras, and of Arizona. In 1904 he was given his first solo exhibition, and by 1914 the first of several solo museum exhibitions of his work was held at the Los Angeles Museum. He also exhibited throughout the country in national exhibitions. Puthuff was active in local art organizations, helping establish the Painter’s Club, later known as the California Art Club, and, with his friend the critic Antony Anderson, the Art Students League of Los Angeles. He was also an active member of 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, the Southern States Art Association, and the Southern States Art League. Sources: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hanson Puthuff: About the Artist, collections.lacma.org Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Hanson Duvall Puthuff: Diorama Artists, www.nhm.org September 2023 PastPerfect Conversion |
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