John Marshall Gamble. John Marshall Gamble was an American painter who focused on California landscapes and wildflowers.
He relocated to Santa Barbara after his San Francisco studio was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. He was an influential in the Santa Barbara art scene, being a teacher and School Board President of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts.
Wild Heliotrope and Poppies, San Francisco, between 1893 and 1906, Birmingham Museum of Art John Marshall Gamble was born in New Jersey in 1863, moved to New Zealand with his family in his early years, and then to San Francisco in 1883. He was the grandson of US Marines Lieutenant Colonel John Marshall Gamble.
First studying the San Francisco School of Design under Virgil Macey Williams and Emil Carlson, he later went to the Académie Colarossi, and the Académie Julian in Paris, to study under Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He first opened a studio in San Francisco which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, moving to Santa Barbara afterwards.
During his career he won several awards, such as a gold medal at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, in Seattle. Gamble is considered the supreme painter of California's wildflowers, an exhaustless theme which has won the artist enduring fame. The artist became a faculty member of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts in 1929, and later served as School Board President. A friend of painte
He relocated to Santa Barbara after his San Francisco studio was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. He was an influential in the Santa Barbara art scene, being a teacher and School Board President of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts.
Wild Heliotrope and Poppies, San Francisco, between 1893 and 1906, Birmingham Museum of Art John Marshall Gamble was born in New Jersey in 1863, moved to New Zealand with his family in his early years, and then to San Francisco in 1883. He was the grandson of US Marines Lieutenant Colonel John Marshall Gamble.
First studying the San Francisco School of Design under Virgil Macey Williams and Emil Carlson, he later went to the Académie Colarossi, and the Académie Julian in Paris, to study under Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He first opened a studio in San Francisco which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, moving to Santa Barbara afterwards.
During his career he won several awards, such as a gold medal at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, in Seattle. Gamble is considered the supreme painter of California's wildflowers, an exhaustless theme which has won the artist enduring fame. The artist became a faculty member of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts in 1929, and later served as School Board President. A friend of painte
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