HARVEY B. COLEMAN (1884-1959). California Plein Air Painter.

Born in New York on January 27, 1884. Harvey was a self-taught landscape painter who was a resident of Chicago before moving to Los Angeles at the turn of the century. Coleman exhibited there and worked as a photoengraver for local newspapers until the 1930s. He died in Phoenix, Arizona on September 30, 1959. Exhibited: California State Fair, 1930.

Harvey Coleman biography courtesy Edan Hughes.