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Birth
1888 (York, Pennsylvania)
Death
1972 (San Diego, California)
Lived/Active
California
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landscape, coastal view, portrait
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Categories of Interest
The California Art Club
Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
California Painters
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Alfred Mitchell, born in York, Pennsylvania, became a painter of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism who settled in San Diego in 1908. His plein-air paintings provide an historical record of the growth of San Diego in the early 20th century.
Mitchell was an adventurous young man, who, as a teenager, went West to Nevada during the Gold Rush where he prospected for gold and drove a coach. Then he went to Southern California, and in 1913, began training at the San Diego Academy of Art. This (showing 500 of 2817 characters). |
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