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EDWARD RUFUS HILL:
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"Landscape painter. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 7, 1851, the son of painter Thomas Byron Hill. Due to his father's health, the family left the East and made the overland journey to San Francisco in 1861. The younger Hill studied painting with his father and often accompanied him on painting trips. He was married and divorced three times, once to artist Levina Baker. His small landscapes of northern California were often done on cigar box tops. Hill was active in California until his death of cancer in 1908."
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Exhibited: San Francisco Art Association, 1873; Boston Art Club 1883.
In: Society of California Pioneers; Oregon Historical Society; Oakland Museum.
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(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton. "Artists in California, 1786-1940, Vol. II" Sacramento: Crocker Art Muesum, 2002.).
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ALSO SEE: Obituary of Edward Rufus Hill, published in the Oakland "Tribune," February 2, 1908.
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NOTE: A number of years after the death of her first husband, Edward Rufus Hill, Levina Baker Hill remarried. In 1921, Levina became the wife of WARNER O. PORTER, of Boulder Creek, California. [SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141].
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EDWARD RUFUS HILL:
.
"Landscape painter. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 7, 1851, the son of painter Thomas Byron Hill. Due to his father's health, the family left the East and made the overland journey to San Francisco in 1861. The younger Hill studied painting with his father and often accompanied him on painting trips. He was married and divorced three times, once to artist Levina Baker. His small landscapes of northern California were often done on cigar box tops. Hill was active in California until his death of cancer in 1908."
.
Exhibited: San Francisco Art Association, 1873; Boston Art Club 1883.
In: Society of California Pioneers; Oregon Historical Society; Oakland Museum.
.
(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton. "Artists in California, 1786-1940, Vol. II" Sacramento: Crocker Art Muesum, 2002.).
.
ALSO SEE: Obituary of Edward Rufus Hill, published in the Oakland "Tribune," February 2, 1908.
.
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NOTE: A number of years after the death of her first husband, Edward Rufus Hill, Levina Baker Hill remarried. In 1921, Levina became the wife of WARNER O. PORTER, of Boulder Creek, California. [SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141].
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EDWARD RUFUS HILL:
.
"Landscape painter. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 7, 1851, the son of painter Thomas Byron Hill. Due to his father's health, the family left the East and made the overland journey to San Francisco in 1861. The younger Hill studied painting with his father and often accompanied him on painting trips. He was married and divorced three times, once to artist Levina Baker. His small landscapes of northern California were often done on cigar box tops. Hill was active in California until his death of cancer in 1908."
.
Exhibited: San Francisco Art Association, 1873; Boston Art Club 1883.
In: Society of California Pioneers; Oregon Historical Society; Oakland Museum.
.
(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton. "Artists in California, 1786-1940, Vol. II" Sacramento: Crocker Art Muesum, 2002.).
.
ALSO SEE: Obituary of Edward Rufus Hill, published in the Oakland "Tribune," February 2, 1908.
.
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NOTE: A number of years after the death of her first husband, Edward Rufus Hill, Levina Baker Hill remarried. In 1921, Levina became the wife of WARNER O. PORTER, of Boulder Creek, California. [SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141].
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EDWARD RUFUS HILL:
.
"Landscape painter. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 7, 1851, the son of painter Thomas Byron Hill. Due to his father's health, the family left the East and made the overland journey to San Francisco in 1861. The younger Hill studied painting with his father and often accompanied him on painting trips. He was married and divorced three times, once to artist Levina Baker. His small landscapes of northern California were often done on cigar box tops. Hill was active in California until his death of cancer in 1908."
.
Exhibited: San Francisco Art Association, 1873; Boston Art Club 1883.
In: Society of California Pioneers; Oregon Historical Society; Oakland Museum.
.
(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton. "Artists in California, 1786-1940, Vol. II" Sacramento: Crocker Art Muesum, 2002.).
.
ALSO SEE: Obituary of Edward Rufus Hill, published in the Oakland "Tribune," February 2, 1908.
.
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NOTE: A number of years after the death of her first husband, Edward Rufus Hill, Levina Baker Hill remarried. In 1921, Levina became the wife of WARNER O. PORTER, of Boulder Creek, California. [SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141].
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