John Butler (artist)

Also in their circle were photographer Imogen Cunningham (who used Butler and the others extensively as models, and later married Partridge) and painters Mabel Lisle Ducasse and Yasushi Tanaka.

[1] As a youth, Butler studied in Seattle under Carlotta Blaurock, who had been, in turn, a student of James McNeill Whistler.

[1] Returning to America, he continued his studies under William Merritt Chase, at a summer 1914 class in Carmel, California.

While in Europe he began making woodcuts and blockprints, which were exhibited at the Northwest Printmakers Society in Seattle, among other venues.

He sometimes signed his work with his initials, "J.B."[1] The Seattle Art Museum's collection includes a painting by Butler, depicting a couple resting on the banks of Lake Washington on a Summer Day.