Frederick Richard Chisnall (1887-1965), Known as a desert painter, he was born in England and immigrated to Canada as a young man. He worked as an engraver for Eatons. In 1920, he moved to Los Angeles and continued as an engraver for the "Times." During this period, he studied at the Art Institute of California. In the 1930s, he settled in Rancho Mirage and established a gallery in his home. He often summered in Wyoming and by the 1930s was painting landscapes in Arizona and Nevada.

Katharine Van Dyke Harker (1872-1966), From a well-established San Francisco family, Katherine Harker had the very financial independence essential to the productivity of women artists in the early part of this century. She was a student of Julie Heyneman, a California Impressionist, the Italian tonalist Gotardo Piazzoni, and Frank Morley Fletcher, who is also represented in this tour. Harker is in many ways the prototypical California landscape artist.