Victor Mikhail Arnautoff was a Russian-American painter and professor of art. He worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area from 1925 to 1963, including two decades as a teacher at Stanford University, and was particularly prolific as a muralist during the 1930s. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen, but returned to the Soviet Union after the death of his wife, continuing his career there before his death.
"City Life" mural, Coit Tower, San Francisco, painted by Arnautoff
Another part of the City Life mural, featuring a self-portrait of Arnautoff, near a magazine rack containing socialist/communist magazines.
Gertrude Partington Albright
Gertrude Partington Albright was a British-born American artist known for portrait etchings and her Cubism-influenced California landscapes. She taught at the California School of Fine Arts for nearly thirty years.
Gertrude Partington Albright, A Structure Brave: Palace of Fine Arts, etching. Published in Cora Lenore Williams' book The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition, 1915.