Hanson Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972) was a

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and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the

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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

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s. Puthuff died in Corona del Mar on May 12, 1972. Puthuff was one of the cofounders of the California Art Club and the Laguna Beach Art Association. He won awards in 1909 from the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, a bronze medal at the

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in 1914, and two silver medals from the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. His works are exhibited in, among other places, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,LACMA Collections Online
/ref> Laguna Art Museum, and Bowers Museum. Many of his works are also cataloged in the

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art inventory. In 2007, the Pasadena Museum of California Art featured ''California Colors: Hanson Puthuff'', the first solo museum exhibition of his work. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Museum republished the artist's

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Puthuff's Listing In The Smithsonian's SIRIS System
Painters from Missouri American landscape painters 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 1875 births 1972 deaths People from Lafayette County, Missouri 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1870s-stub