| Painter, pastelist. Born in Oakland, CA on April 5, 1888, the son of a prosperous dry goods merchant who founded a store called Taft and Pennoyer. The Pennoyer family moved to nearby Berkeley while Sheldon was a child. After one year at UC, he sailed to Paris to study architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts. He soon opted to become a painter instead and studied art at Academies Julian and Grand Chaumière under Ménard and Lucien Simon. At the outbreak of WWI, he left Eu (showing 500 of 1955 characters). |
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