A well-listed bi-coastal
landscape and portrait painter, Arthur Merton Hazard was born in North Bridgewater,
Massachusetts on October 20th of 1872. He trained with the artist Duveneck in Cincinnati, Ohio
and with Prinet and Blanc in Paris, France.
While most of his career
was spent in Boston, he moved to Los Angeles, California for health reasons in
1923. He was very prominent as a well-known portraitist in Los Angeles, doing
works for Charles M Russell, Douglas Fairbanks and Jack Wilkinson Smith, amongst
others.
His works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum in
Washington, DC, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, the Nevada Museum, the State House in Boston, the Baltimore,
Maryland Courthouse, and the House of Parliament in Canada. While vacationing in
France, he died near Paris on December 26th of 1930 at
the age of 58.
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