Sam Hyde Harris was born in Middlesex, England, in 1889, immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1904 settling in Los Angeles. He worked under and with some of California's foremost artists: Stanton Mac Donald-Wright, Will Foster, Frank Tolles Chamberlain, Lawrence Murphy, and Hanson Puthuff. He is a master of the plein air works. Harris was also a commercial artist throughout his life, most notably with the Sante Fe Railroad, and an art instructor at the Chouinard Art School. He died in Los Angeles in 1977, having won over 100 awards during 40 years of exhibiting in Southern California.
All Sam Hyde Harris paintings that I sell will have an Estate authentication stamp and a 100% guarantee. They come directly from the Estate of Sam Hyde and Marion Dodge Harris.
There is a current exhibition of the works of Sam Hyde Harris at the Pasadena Museum of History entitled "'Who Was Sam?'Sam Hyde Harris 1889-1977"
The new book, "Sam Hyde Harris 1889-1977 A Retrospective" is now avaliable at $79.95
