This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A landscape painter, graphics artist and muralist, William Patty was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, and by age 16, was earning a living as a painter.
He studied in New York at the National Academy of Design and at the Acadamie Julian in Paris. Among his teachers were Edgar M. WArd, Robert Brandegee, and Charles Noel Flagg.
In the 1920s, he worked in Brooklyn, although he was in San Antonio and Mexico in 1935 painting portraits. In 1936, he moved to Southern California and settled for the remainder of his life in Laguna Beach where he died in 1960.
Exhibitions included the Society of Independent Artists, American Artists Professional League and Laguna Beach Art Association.
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John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Hartford, CT on March 13, 1884. By age 16 Patty was earning his living as a painter. After studying at the NAD and in Paris at Académie Julian, he worked in Brooklyn, NY for many years. While a resident there, he painted murals in Trinidad, Phoenix, Miami and St Petersburg, FL. He moved to Laguna Beach, CA in 1936 and remained until his death on Nov. 8, 1960. Member: Brooklyn WC Club; Brooklyn Society of Artists; AAPL; Laguna Beach AA. Exh: NAD; CGA; PAFA, 1921, 1928. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1919-33; Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Who's Who in American Art 1936-59; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); Death record. | | 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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