Arthur returned with David, another brother, in 1898 but died in January 1899 having established his name as a noted California painter.
The remainder of the family, including the parents, Georgina and Henry, and the eldest girl, Marion, arrived in 1908.
He co-founded the art gallery at 236 Post Street, San Francisco with his uncle William Kingston Vickery as soon as he arrived in the Bay area in 1888.
[2] He also designed complete interiors, including the main reading room of the Doe Memorial Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
He also designed the concrete staircases at Bancroft Steps and Orchard Lane (1910) at the foot of Panoramic Hill in Berkeley, California.