One of the more prominent early 20th-century landscape painters in
Northern California, Arthur Best was especially known for his paintings
of the Grand Canyon, Arizona desert, and Sierra Nevada mountains.
With his wife, he founded the Best Art School in San Francisco.
He
was born in Mount Pleasanton near Petersboro, Canada, and he and his
brothers were musicians with Arthur playing the clarinet. In 1895, the
band broke up, and the brothers moved to San Francisco where Arthur (showing 500 of 1040 characters). |
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Arthur Best is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Painters of Grand Canyon
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