Roi Partridge
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Roi Partridgeborn Centralia, Washington, 1888; died Walnut Creek, California, 1984
Roi Partridge's family moved to Seattle in 1892 when he was a small child. He attended the Fine Arts Institute in Kansas and also studied etching in Germany and Paris in the early 1910s. He returned to Seattle in 1914 where he met and married his first wife the important modernist photographer Imogen Cunningham. The couple moved to San Francisco in 1917 where Partridge taught at Mills College, in Oakland, from 1920 to 1954. He also directed the gallery there from 1925 to 1935.
Born George Roy Partridge, he changed his signature to "Roi Partridge" in 1916.
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