John Noble

John "Wichita Bill" Noble (March 15, 1874 – January 6, 1934) was an American painter. He was a noted post-impressionist painter of sunrises and seascapes. His painting, The Big Herd, won the Carnegie Prize in 1928. Following his death, his works appeared in the private collection of William Randolph Hearst, and he became the subject of Irving Stone's 1949 biographical work The Passionate Journey.