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Ferdinand Earle

Ferdinand Piney Earle (1878 - 1951) was active/lived in California.  Ferdinand Earle is known for Landscape and marine painter.

Born in New York on June 8, 1878. Earle was educated at Columbia and Oxford universities. His art studies were begun in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Académie Julian, and with James M. Whistler. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1901, he continued at the ASL in NYC. A poet, he published his first book of poems in 1910. Returning from a trip to Germany, he settled in Los Angeles in 1915. He then became active as an independent movie producer and director for silent pictures while painting landscapes and marines in his leisure. In 1925 he founded and edited the magazineWest Wind which dealt with literature, art, and poetry. His many marriages, divorces, and kidnapping of his son received great publicity in the Los Angeles Times. Earle was a resident of Los Angeles until his death on July 13, 1951. Exh: Chamber of Commerce (Hollywood), 1926; Artists of LA (LACMA), 1943.

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Los Angeles Times, 7-16-1951 (obituary).

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