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Birth
1862 (St. Louis, Missouri)
Death
1937 (San Fransisco, California)
Lived/Active
California/Missouri
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mission scenes and tonalist landscape painting
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Painter, etcher, and muralist, Will Sparks became one of California's
premier artists, known for his mission and nocturnal adobe
scenes. He was highly prolific, completing about three-thousand
oil paintings.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and showed
art talent as a youngster, selling his first painting when he was age
twelve. He became a doctor, but his love of art prevailed.
He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then went to New York
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