Hanson Puthuff

Hanson Puthuff (1875-1972)

Hanson Puthuff arrived in Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years supported himself as a commercial artist painting billboards while also painting plein air landscapes in his leisure. In Southern California, he lived in Eagle Rock, La Crescenda, Corona Del Mar, and La Canada. He was Instrumental in founding the Art Students League of Los Angeles with critic Anthony Anderson in 1906. After 1926, he was able to abandon commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions. He is nationally famous for his lyric interpretations of the Southern California deserts. Puthuff died in Corona Del Mar on May 12th 1972. Member : California Art Club (cofounder); Laguna Beach Art Association (cofounder); Los Angeles Watercolor Society; Painters and Sculptors Club, Los Angeles; Berkeley League of Fine Arts; Pasadena Society of Artists; San Francisco Art Association; Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago; Salmagundi Club, New York; Southern States Art League. Exhibited : Art Institute of Chicago, 1907-15; Alaska-Yukon Exposition, Seattle, 1909 (prize)Paris Salon, 1914 (medal); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1914 (solo), 1917 (solo), 1929; Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1916 (2 medals); California Art Club, 1916 (prize); San Francisco Art Association,116; State Fair, Sacramento, 1918 (gold), 1919 (medal); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1919; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1920 (prize), 1921 (prize); Southwest Museum, Los Angeles,1921 (prize); Springville, Utah, 1924 (prize), 1926-28 (prize, each year); Painters of the West, 1925 (medal), 1927 (gold), 1930 (medal); Riverside, CA, 1927 (prize); Pacific-Southwest Exposition, 1928 (medal); Chicago Galleries Association, 1930; Golden Gate Exposition, 1939.