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Elliot Torrey (1867-1949), a kinsman of Dana Torrey and Dr. John Torrey, discoverer of the famous Torrey pines, was born in East Hardwick, Vermont, January 7, 1867. He studied art in Italy and France and established a studio in Boston for a few years. In the first decade of this century, he spent a number of years in Paris studying and exhibiting. Upon returning to New York in 1911, he established a studio there. Migrating to California in 1923, he stopped first at Pasadena and finally settled in San Diego as a Plein Air painter. Depiction's of children and the sea were his specialty . Torrey treated both subjects with a certain verve and brilliance. He died following a lingering illness on March 10, 1949. |
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