About Margaret Bruton

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    Margaret Bruton (1894-1983)

    Margaret Bruton is often known for her landscapes, figures, graphics and murals. Although Margarets family had lived in San Francisco, California, Margaret was born in 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, where her mother had relatives. Margaret and her mother returned to California when she was two months old. She was raised in San Francisco where she and her sisters Helen and Esther, also artists, attended public high school. As a youth Margaret showed promise as an artist, which prompted her art education in 1913. She started at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco where she studied under Frank Van Sloun. At the age of twelve she won a prize for her work and later earned a scholarship that enabled ...

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