Sumner Crosby

George Hurrell
Sumner Crosby
Gelatin silver print, 1925
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Laguna Art Museum Collection
Gift of Jennings T. Bird
1950.024.017

Harvard educated Sumner Crosby was elected to the California Assembly from the Forty-seventh District in November 1910. He moved to Southern California and lived in Laguna Beach during the 1920s, editing the South Coast News. In 1932 Crosby proposed to the Laguna Beach Art Association the creation of a summer festival and art exhibit, the future Festival of Arts.