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| | Born in Kansas on Aug. 18, 1904. By 1930 Olsen had settled in Oakland and was an employee of the Federal Art Project in 1935. He died in San Francisco on Sept. 13, 1954. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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