Ralph E. DeCamp (September 17, 1858 – May 27, 1936) was an American painter and photographer. Born in New York, he grew up in Wisconsin and Minnesota before relocating to Montana, where he opened a studio in

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. He did six murals in the Montana State Capitol in 1911 and four more in 1927. He lived in Chicago from 1934 to 1936, and he was buried in the

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, Helena. Many of his paintings and negatives are at the Montana Historical Society Museum.

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