| Orrin Augustine White | |
| Birth Date: | 1883 |
| Birth Place: | Hanover, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Date: | 1969 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Notre Dame |
| Occupation: | Painter |
Orrin Augustine White (1883 - 1969) was an American painter. His studio was in Pasadena, California.
White was born in 1883 in Hanover, Illinois.[1] He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1902.[1] [2] He was an assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Portland in Oregon.[1]
White began his artistic career as a textile designer until he became an interior designer in Los Angeles in 1906, and he took up painting in 1912.[1] Two of his paintings were exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.[2] He served in World War I, and he later opened a studio in Pasadena.[2] He was on the advisory council of the South Pasadena chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters.[3]
White gave private lessons in landscape painting to California artist Ben Abril.[4]
White died in 1969.[1] His work was exhibited by the South Pasadena chapter of the NSAL shortly after his death, and they set up the Orrin White Scholarship Fund in his memory.[3] One of his paintings in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[2]