Anna Althea Hills (1882 - 1930) View of the Sea. Most likely a view of Laguna Beach California. Signed lower left. Oil on board. Sight size: 8 x 6 inches. Hills studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Union and the Academie Julian in Paris, and privately with Arthur Wesley Dow in New York. After four years of travel and study in Europe, she settled in Laguna Beach. Anna was the founder and served as president of the Laguna Beach Art Association for six years and helped raise the funds to establish the present Laguna Museum of Art. A bronze plaque was placed there after her death on June 13, 1930 to honor the memory of her community work in Laguna.