John Marshall Gamble

John Marshall Gamble (1863 – April 8, 1957) was an American painter who focused on California landscapes and wildflowers.

John Marshall Gamble was born in New Jersey in 1863, moved to New Zealand with his family in his early years, and then to San Francisco in 1883.

[3] He first opened a studio in San Francisco which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake,[1] moving to Santa Barbara afterwards.

[2] Gamble is considered the "supreme painter of California's wildflowers",[6] an "exhaustless theme which has won the artist enduring fame".

[8] A friend of painter Willis E. Davies, Gamble accompanied him to plein air painting trips, and the 1910 European trip that ended with Davies' suicide on board of the White Star liner RMS Oceanic.