This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  George Cecil Corbit first enlisted in the Michigan National Guard in 1916. At Fort Custer, Michigan he served on the Texas Border against Panch Villa. He was then sent to France during WW1. As Sergeant 32 Infantry Division, he was wounded at Sousons, France. Following he spent years in V.A hospitals, due to a severe wound in his hip (Shell Fragments).
Corbit studied art and sculpting in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Michigan. Later he moved to California. Eventually cancer took over in the wound he received in WW1, this caused him more years of suffering and led to his untimely death.
Information submitted as a bulletin by: Jack Corbit, nephew of the artist
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Painter. Born in Cassopolis, MI on Nov. 25, 1892. Disabled in WWI, Corbit settled in San Diego in 1923. He studied art there with Charles Reiffel and Otto Schneider. He remained in San Diego until his suicide on Sept. 2, 1944.
Member: San Diego Art Guild; Studio 8, Spanish Village (San Diego). Exh: San Diego FA Society, 1930, 1932,1939 (prize); Calif. Pacific Int'l Expo, 1935; OGlE, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1940 Calif. State Fair, 1941; San Diego Art Guild, 1949 (memorial). CA&A; DR. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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