This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from Susan Canavarro, whose father was an artist in Monterey and Mendocino:
Sam Colburn was considered a famous local artist during the 1970's on the Monterey Peninsula and taught classes at the New Monterey Neighborhood center - where I had one class with him in using watercolor.
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Having been educated as a geologist, Samuel Colburn, born in Denver, Colorado, turned to fine art painting after touring Europe. His subjects include landscape, still life, seascapes and portraits, and he especially loved farm scenes in the valleys of Salinas and Carmel. He also did mural painting.
He came to California in 1918 with his family and first lived in Los Angeles. He studied geology at the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado and traveled in Europe after that. He briefly owned an airplane business in Long Beach but gave that up for his art career.
He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and was a member of the Carmel Art Association, having settled in the early 1930's in the Monterey Peninsula area, more specifically Carmel, where he taught classes for many years. During the 1940s and 50s, he produced many transparent watercolors of his homeland region and also of scenes from his travels to Mexico and other states.
Colburn died December 1, 1993 on the Monterey Peninsula, California
Source:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, California Watercolors, 1850-1970
Peter Falk (editor), Who Was Who in American Art
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