Early Life, Family and Training Born in 1863 in Morristown, New Jersey, John Marshall Gamble spent his formative years far from the American coast. His family relocated to New Zealand during his childhood, a period of transition that preceded his eventual move to the West Coast. By the age of 20, in 1883, he arrived in San Francisco, a city that would become a central setting for his life and his later artistic pursuits. His formal education began in the San Francisco School of Design, where he studied under Virgil Macey Williams and Emil Carlson. These early lessons provided the foundation…