Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Illustrator, cartoonist. Born in Sacramento, CA on Jan. 18, 1861, the son of the founder of Alta California. A self-taught artist, by age 20 Kemble was contributing to national magazines, such as Harper's, Century, and Leslie's. During the 1880s his illustrations were of the soldiers and Indians of the West; he later specialized in humorous Negro subjects. He was a resident of New Rochelle, NY and Ridgefield, CT until his death in the latter on Sept. 19, 1933. H&l; Sam; FId; AAW; WWA; Ben; AAA 1907, 1933 (obit); NY Times, 9-20-1933 (obit).
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