Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California
watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde*
painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield.
He
was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his
childhood because his grandmother, Eliza Twigg, was a painter. He
first studied art in high school with Mary Louise Arnold whom Dike
later described as so sombre and dressed in such heavy shoes that she
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