Biografie von Charles Albert ROGERS (1848-1918)

Birth place: New Haven, CT

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: NYC; active San Francisco from 1860s; Los Angeles, 1906 and still in 1913

Profession: Landscape painter, painter

Studied: NYC; Munich; Paris; Rome

Exhibited: Mechanics' Inst. Fair, 1895, 1897, 1899; Mark Hopkins Inst., 1897; Calif. State Fair, 1902; Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo, Seattle, 1909 (bronze medal); Blanchard Gal., Los Angeles, 1911

Member: P&S of Los Angeles; Calif. AC; San Francisco AA

Work: Calif. Hist. Soc.

Comments: Moved to Los Angeles after the 1906 fire destroyed his studio. Also painted scenes of Chinatown and sketched in Yosemite in 1911. P&H Samuels report that he may be Charles Rogers who painted a San Francisco panorama in 1856 and worked at the Lyceum Theater in 1859.

Sources: Hughes, Artists in California, 476; Samuels, 405-06.