Hanson Puthuff was born in Waverly, MO on August 21, 1875. Puthuff studied at the AIC before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at the University of Denver Art School. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years painted billboards for Foster & Kleiser. After 1926 he was able to abandon commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions. Puthuff died in Corona del Mar on May 12, 1972. He is nationally famous for his lyric landscapes of the southern California deserts.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California 1786-1940"
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