Waldo, John Frank -Old Maple 1908
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WALDO, John Frank (1835-1920).
Painter.
Born in Chelsea, VT on May 16, 1835. As early as 1851 Waldo began making sketching trips to the West. By 1864 he had settled in Oshkosh, WI where he worked as a sign painter. A peripatetic and self-taught artist, he painted fine art in his leisure. He studied briefly under Henry Chapman Ford in Chicago after moving to that city in 1871.
During 1884 he lived in San Francisco where he painted a number of large western landscapes from sketches done in the Rocky Mountains.
Later in that year he visited Henry Chapman Ford in Santa Barbara. By 1895 he was in New Dim 16" x 25"