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Norman St Clair

Norman St. Clair (1863 - 1912) was active/lived in California / England.  Norman St Clair is known for Marine, landscape.

Watercolorist. Born in Birmingham, England on Nov. 24, 1863.

Saint Clair studied architecture and worked as a draftsman in England. After immigrating to America, he was an architect in Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco before moving to Pasadena about 1900. He had a home in the Arroyo Seco and, after 1906, commuted regularly to Laguna Beach where he is considered to be the first artist to work in that community. Primarily a self-taught painter, his representational watercolors are derived from the English school of painting. Saint Clair died of tuberculosis at his Pasadena home on March 6, 1912. Member: LA Painters Club; Calif. Art Club.

Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1904-11; Laguna Hotel, 1906; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1908-09; Kanst Gallery (LA), 1909; PAFA, 1910; Calif. Art Club, 1912; LACMA, 1915 (memorial). In: Orange Co. (CA) Museum. 1 So. Calif. Artists, 1890-1940; SCA; NY Times, 3-8-19t2 (obit); AAA 1913 (obit).

Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here.

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Facts about Norman St Clair

   Publications  Book References:  13
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13 Book References for Norman St. Clair
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary 231 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1979 Editor, Laguna Beach Museum Southern California Artists 1890-1940 216 Yes
1973 Havlice, Patricia Pate Index to Artistic Biography (Three Volumes) 2315 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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