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Birth
1854 (Hillsboro, Ohio)
Death
1940 (San Diego, California)
Lived/Active
California/New York
Photo of Charles Arthur Fries
Often Known For
desert landscape, genre and portrait painting
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Born in Hillsboro, Ohio, Charles Fries was referred to as the dean of San Diego artists from the time he settled in that city in 1897. His reputation was based on magnificent atmospheric desert landscapes, many of them showing historical scenes of the state.
He was raised in Cincinnati and apprenticed there to a lithographer and then studied portraiture at McMicken Art Academy where he associated with other men who became famous artists--J.H. Twachtman, Robert Blum, Kenyon Cox, and Frank (showing 500 of 4014 characters). |
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