 Pauline Hamill DeVol is primarily known as Pauline Hamill De Vol
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Chicago, IL on Oct. 7, 1893. Pauline Hamill studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under Cyril Kay-Scott. While at that school she met Eugene DeVol whom she married in 1920. The couple then had an art school in Denver and, at the urging of painter Maurice Braun, moved to San Diego. In 1921 the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts opened in Balboa Park with Eugene as director and Pauline his assistant. After her husband's death in 1929, Pauline became the director, a position she held until the U.S. Navy confiscated the park in 1941. She then served as director of the La Jolla Art Center and in the early 1940s married John S. Rea. She died in San Diego on July, 18, 1974. Member: San Diego Art Guild; Laguna Beach AA; La Jolla AA. Exh: AIC, 1918; Calif. State Fair, 1934; Calif.-Pacific Int'l Expo (San Diego), 1935; San Diego FA Society, 1941 (prize). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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