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Pedro Joseph de Lemos (1882-1954) was a Hispanic-American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, and educator. He was born in Austin, Nevada on May 25, 1882, and early in his life, moved to Myrtle Street in Oakland, California.

In 1900, Lemos was a pupil of Arthur Matthews at the Mark Hopkins Institute. Lemos moved to New York and became a student of George Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York and Arthur Wesley Dow at Columbia University Teachers College.

Returning to Oakland, Lemos set up his studio overlooking Lake Merritt and began teaching at University of California at Berkeley. He also worked as an illustrator and designer and began teaching classes in decorative design and etching at the San Francisco Institute of Art, formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute, in 1911.

In 1912, Lemos was one of the four founding member of the California Society of Etchers (now the California Society of Printmakers) in San Francisco, California.

He was Professor of Design at Stanford University and appointed director of the Stanford Museum of Art (now the Stanford University Cantor Arts Center) in 1919.

Lemos became editor of School Arts Magazine in 1919 and held the position until 1950.

Lemos pioneered the revival of Spanish Colonial architecture. He designed several downtown buildings in the Ramona Street Architectural District and residences in Palo Alto, California. The house Lemos designed at 1730 University Avenue was renovated in 2008 and is now a net zero energy house, powered by photovoltaic solar panels.

In 1928, Pedro de Lemos and his wife, Reta, created the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, California. The guild was a live/work environment to optimize artists’ creative experience. The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park has many examples of the ironwork created at the guild.

Lemos was a prolific writer, authoring over 50 books on arts and crafts and producing a series of folios based on his theories of design entitled Applied Art.

Two years before his death, Lemos was inducted as fellow of the Royal Society of Art in London.