Gilmer Petroff - Artist Info

About Gilmer Petroff

  • Biography

    Born at Saranac Lake, NY on March 13, 1913. Petroff studied at Yale University and University of Wisconsin. He was a resident of San Diego in 1936 and then settled in NYC. He died in Richland County, SC on Sept. 28, 1990.

    Exh: San Diego Art Guild, 1936.

    Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
    Who's Who in American Art 1940-62.

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