John M. Gamble (1863-1957)

John Gamble was born in Morristown, New Jersey but spend his teenage years with his family in Aukland, New Zealand. At the age of twenty he moved to San Francisco where he studied under Virgil Williams and Emil Carlsen at the School of Design. Gamble later studied in Paris at the Academie Julian. He then returned to San Francisco where he opened a studio which was subsequently destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. The artist then moved to Santa Barbara where he remained until his death in 1957. John Gamble is nationally known for his landscape paintings of wildflowers.