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Norman St. Clair
(1863-1912)


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"Monrovia Canyon"
1896
Watercolor
10 x 14 inches


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Norman St. Clair was a watercolorist, born in Birmingham, England on November 24, 1863. St. Clair studied architecture and worked as a draftsman in England. After immigrating to America, he was an architect in Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco before moving to Pasadena about 1890. He had a home in the Arroyo Seco and, after 1906, commuted regularly to Laguna Beach where he is considered to be the first artist to work in that community. Primarily a self-taught painter, his representational watercolors are derived from the English school of painting. St. Clair died of tuberculosis at his Pasadena home on March 6, 1912.

Member: Los Angeles Painters Club; California Art Club.

Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association, 1904-11; Laguna Hotel, 1906; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1908-09; Kanst Gallery, Los Angeles, 1909; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1910; California Art Club, 1912; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1915 (memorial).

Works Held: Orange County Museum, California.

Source:
Hughes, Edan M. Artists In California 1786-1940. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Sacramento: Crocker, Art Museum, 2002. N. pag. 2 vols. Print