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Georgia Crittenden Bemis

Georgia Crittenden Bemis (1908 - 2008) was active/lived in California, Minnesota.  Georgia Bemis is known for Portrait painter, etcher, sculptor.

Georgia Crittenden Bemis was born in Delano, MN on Jan. 13, 1908.  Bemis moved to San Diego, CA in 1928.  She studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts and with Pauline DeVol, Charles Reiffel, Otto Schneider, and Ruth Norton Ball.  After five years in San Diego, she moved to the San Francisco Bay area.  Portraits became her specialty, both in oil and various sculpture media.  In 1939 she went to New York to paint Mayor LaGuardia for the Arizona Bldg at the World's Fair.  While there, she further studied with Frank V. DuMond at the ASL.  In 1940 she married Ray Goozen, and for many years had a studio in San Francisco.  Having enjoyed a long career, she continued to paint at her home in the hills of Oakland until her death on Dec. 18, 2008.  Her work includes portraits, landscapes and seascapes. 

Member:  Nat'l Painters & Sculptors; San Diego Art Guild. 

Exh:  San Diego Art Guild, 1938 (portrait of Anni

Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Interview with the artist or her family; California Arts & Architecture list, 1932; City Directory; Ferdinand Perret Files; Social Security Death Index (1940-2002).


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