Annie Lyle Harmon - Artist Info

About Annie Lyle Harmon

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    Annie Lyle Harmon often signed her small paintings with only her initials. I have had dozens of them in the past 42 years. Here is Harmon's entry as it will appear in my third edition:

    HARMON, Annie Lyle (1855-1930). Landscape painter. Born in San Francisco, CA in February 1855. Annie's parents were natives of Maine who had come to California with the Gold Rush and established a lumber business. During the 1880s she studied locally with Raymond Yelland and Wm Keith. (Her brother married Keith's only daughter.)

    During the 1890s she maintained a studio in San Francisco at 20 Ellis Street and for many years was a resident at 841 Shrader. The fire following the earthquake in 1906 destroyed 480 of her paintings making her early wo...

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