This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Killgore was a landscape painter and commercial artist who worked for forty-three years as a color consultant for the "Chicago Tribune". He graduated from Marshall College in Huntington and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was in the camouflage corps during World War I and in 1919 began the newspaper job in Chicago.
He traveled extensively including twelve trips to Mexico and forty-one trips to California, where he often painted with his friend Orrin White of Pasadena. Many of his paintings had scenes with Spanish architecture.
Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" |
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