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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Fisherman, Newport Beach, California
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Spencer Jon Helfen Fine Arts:
| Lillian Whiting was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1876. She studied at the Art Students League in New York with Will H. Foote, at the Boston Art School, and at UCLA with John Hubbard Rich.
Whiting was an art supervisor in the public schools in Brattleboro, Vermont, and by 1917 she had settled in Los Angeles, where she continued teaching and was a member of the Southern California Art Teachers Association.
In 1925, Whiting exhibited in the West Coast Arts annual show at Los Angeles’ Southwest Museum, with her painting The Bather. She was a Charter member of the Laguna Beach Art Association and Women Painters West, and was active in the Los Angeles art community, serving on the committee for the 1934 “Echo of the Olympics” exhibition at the State Building in the city’s Exposition Park, and on the Laguna Beach Art Association’s board during the 1930s.
During her retirement, Lillian Whiting lived in her studio-home in Laguna Beach until she passed away there in 1949.
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Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Fitchburg, MA in 1876. Whiting studied at the Boston Art School, ASL of NYC under Will H. Foote, and UCLA under John Hubbard Rich. After several years as an art supervisor in the public schools of Brattleboro, VT, by 1917 she had moved to Los Angeles where she continued teaching. Upon retirement, she settled into a studio-home in Laguna Beach where she remained until her death on Dec. 19, 1949. Primarily an oil painter, her work includes landscapes and seascapes. Member: Women Painters of the West; So. Calif. Art Teachers Ass'n. Exh: Laguna Beach AA, 1918-38; West Coast Arts (LA), 1925; McDowell Club (LA), 1926. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1923; California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; Western Woman, Dec. 1939. | | 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. |
Biography from AskART:
| | A charter member of the Laguna Beach Art Association and Women Painters of the West, Lillian Whiting was a landscape painter who worked in Los Angeles from 1917 until her death in 1949. She studied at UCLA with John Hubbard Rich. |
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