Etcher, painter, printmaker, William Seltzer Rice was born on June 23, 1873 in Manheim, PA where his family had a carriage-painting business. Rice began drawing at an early age and had art lessons... Read full biography
Etcher, painter, printmaker, William Seltzer Rice was born on June 23, 1873 in Manheim, PA where his family had a carriage-painting business. Rice began drawing at an early age and had art lessons from itinerant artists. At age 20 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art in... Read full biography
Etcher, painter, printmaker, William Seltzer Rice was born on June 23, 1873 in Manheim, PA where his family had a carriage-painting business. Rice began drawing at an early age and had art lessons from itinerant artists. At age 20 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and took classes from Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute. He worked as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Times until 1900 when he was offered a job in California as supervisor of art in the... Read full biography
Etcher, painter, printmaker, William Seltzer Rice was born on June 23, 1873 in Manheim, PA where his family had a carriage-painting business. Rice began drawing at an early age and had art lessons from itinerant artists. At age 20 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and took classes from Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute. He worked as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Times until 1900 when he was offered a job in California as supervisor of art in the Stockton public schools. He remained in that position for ten years and then became head of the art departments at Alameda High School, Fremont High School (1919-30), Oakland's Castlemont High School (1930-40), and UC Extension (1932-43). While... Read full biography
Etcher, painter, printmaker, William Seltzer Rice was born on June 23, 1873 in Manheim, PA where his family had a carriage-painting business. Rice began drawing at an early age and had art lessons from itinerant artists. At age 20 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and took classes from Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute. He worked as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Times until 1900 when he was offered a job in California as supervisor of art in the Stockton public schools. He remained in that position for ten years and then became head of the art departments at Alameda High School, Fremont High School (1919-30), Oakland's Castlemont High School (1930-40), and UC Extension (1932-43). While teaching, he earned a B.F.A. degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts and taught. Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in... Read full biography
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
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