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 SAN FRANCISCO 115 The California School has produced a preponder- ant number of painters of nature. Among them are Thaddeus Welch and his Austrian wife, who put upon canvas the purple lights of the Marin Hills. Ernest Peixotto has caught with his brush and pencil many romantic angles of his home State. C. D. Robinson is most happy in his paintings of the redwoods, Tom Hill in the rocks and green-robed heights of coast and valley. God- dard Gale, Miss Lee and Miss Hunter have given us many scenes about Carmel. Matilda Lotz, Julia Wendt and Arthur Putnam have unusual talent in depicting animals ; the last two are sculp- tors. Edwin Deakin, a Californian born in Brit- ish Manchester, has for a generation been record- ing the vanishing beauties of the widely-separated Missions. Arthur Mathews has influenced a group of pupils of whom Martinez and Piazzoni are well known. Many of California's artists bear for- eign names. Keith himself was a Scotchman who came to the Coast in 1859. Sauerwen, whose spe- cialty is Indian life and the Missions, Eugen Neu- haus, an expert in the handling of tempera, Put- huff, William Wendt, the Wachtels, Sammann, Mannheim, Bierstadt have increased our indebt- edness to the Teutonic nations. Heath and Gam- ble like colourful meadows and skies; Benjamin Brown, Lees Judson, Lungren, Dixon, and Fran- cisco paint the canyons and deserts, the valleys,