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| While in his teens, Benjamin Horning ran away from home to become an actor. He worked in Boston and then studied painting and sculpture in Paris. Returning to the U.S., he was a theatrical manager in Colorado Springs. Badly injured in a serious accident in 1929, he moved to southern California to recuperate and settled in Laguna Beach where he concentrated on painting. Horning died there on Jan. 18, 1936.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Los Angeles Times, 8-28-1929; Southern California Artists (Moure); Death Record; South Coast News, 1-24-1936 (obit). | | 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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