About Arthur Hill Gilbert

  • Biography

    An impressionist landscape painter, especially known for coastal scenes of the Monterey Peninsula, Arthur Hill Gilbert was born in Mount Vernon, Illinois on June 10, 1894.

    He graduated from the Evanston Academy in 1913 and then spent two years at Northwestern University. In 1917 he attended the United States Naval Academy Officer's School at Annapolis and then served abroad. Following his military stint, he moved to Southern California around 1920.

    After studying in Los Angeles at the Otis Art Institute, he had further training in Paris and London. The artist won the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1929 for his Monterey Oaks. The next year he won the Ranger and the Murphy prizes.

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