Hanson Duvall Puthuff
Born Missouri, 1875
Died California, 1972

Born in Waverly, Missouri on Aug. 21, 1875, Hanson Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at the University of Denver Art School.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years painted billboards for Foster & Kleiser. After 1926, he was able to abandon commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions.

Puthuff died in Corona del Mar on May 12, 1972. He is nationally famous for his lyric landscapes of the southern California deserts.

Memberships:
Palette & Chisel Club (Chicago); Pasadena Society of Artists; Salmagundi Club; Southern States Art League.

Exhibitions:
Blanchard Gallery (LA), 1906, 1907; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1908-12; Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909; California Art Club, 1912-23; Paris Salon, 1914 (bronze medal); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1914, 1917 (solos), 1929; Panama-California Expo (San Diego), 1915 (silver medal); San Francisco Art Association, 1916; California State Fair, 1918 (gold medal), 1919 (silver medal), 1926, 1930; Ten Painters of LA, 1919; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1920-21 (1st prizes); Southwest Museum (LA), 1921 (2nd prize); California Water Color Society, 1921-23; Leonard's Gallery (LA), 1923; Springville (UT) High School, 1924 (1st prize); Painters of the West (LA), 1925 (silver medal), 1927 (gold medal), 1930 (bronze medal); Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1926; Ebell Club (LA), 1927; Pacific Southwest Expo, 1928 (silver medal); Foothill Artists (La Canada), 1936; GGIE, 1939; Whittier AA, 1944; AIC, 1945.