biografía de Conrad BUFF (1886-1975)

Lugar de nacimiento: Speicher, Switzerland

Lugar de defunción: Laguna Hills, CA

Direcciones: Los Angeles, CA, 1906; Pasadena, CA

Profesión: Painter, lithographer, illustrator, designer

Estudios: School of Arts and Crafts, St. Gallen, Switzerland (lace des.); Munich

Exposiciones: Calif. State Fair, 1924 (prize); LACMA 1925 (prize), 1934 (prize); San Diego FA Soc., 1925 (prize); AIC, 1932 (prize); Santa Paula, CA, 1944 (prize); Los Angeles County Mun. Exh., 1948 (prize); Commonwealth Club, 1950 (prize).

Asociaciones: Calif. AC.

Obra: Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection; MMA; NGA; BMFA; AIC; Detroit Inst. Art; CPLH; CMA; LACMA; Los Angeles Pub. Lib.; San Diego FA Soc.; murals, Nat. Bank, Phoenix, AZ; Edison Co., Los Angeles; Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles.

Comentarios: Immigrated to the U.S. in 1905 and worked in Wisconsin (Dakota?) as a sheep herder before moving to Los Angeles. There he made sketching trips into the desert and started painting landscapes. Married artist and author Mary Marsh (see entry) in 1922. Illus., Mary Buff Dancing Cloud (Viking Press, 1937) & other juvenile books.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 79; P&H Samuels, 73-74; report that Buff was living in Laguna Hills in 1976.