Stickney Memorial Art School Explained

Stickney Memorial Art School
Location:Pasadena, California, U.S.
Other Names:Stickney Art Institute,
Stickney Memorial School of Art
Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts
Schooltype:Art school
Established:c.1912
Closed:1934

Stickney Memorial Art School, also known as Stickney Art Institute and Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts, was an art school in operation between c.1912 until 1934 in Pasadena, California.[1] [2] The school was an early precursor to the Norton Simon Museum, founded in 1969.

History

Upon opening in c. 1912, the school was led by Jean Mannheim and Channel Pickering Townsley.[3] In the early years of the school, Townsley served as director and Mannheim served as the sole instructor and the school offered summer classes with a costumed model posed in the open air and offered outdoor landscape painting in winter. It also offered charcoal drawing, pen-and-ink drawing, and still life drawing, drawing students from all over the country.[4]

It was originally located at Stickney Hall, on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena (now the 134 and 210 freeways), built and donated by Susan Homer Stickney in memory of her sister.[5] In 1934 the original location was razed and the new location was at Carmelita Gardens and changed names to Pasadena Art Institute.

In the 1930s, artist Lorser Feitelson taught at Stickney Memorial Art School, and it was at the school he met pupil Helen Lundeberg, they would later marry and work as artistic collaborators.[6] [7] Together in 1934, Feitelson and Lundeberg founded Subjective Classicism (or New Classicism), which later became known as Post Surrealism. Another one of Feitelson's students was painter Gerrie Gutmann.

The Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954, and eventually became the Norton Simon Museum.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Early Los Angeles – California Art Club. en-US. 2020-04-02.
  2. Web site: Jean Mannheim (1861-1945): Cultivating Colour and Versatility in California. Reitzell. Richard W.. Fall 2011. California Art Club Newsletter. California Art Club. 2020-04-01.
  3. Book: Westphal, Ruth . The Development of an Art Community in the Los Angeles Area . 1982. Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAOI). Westphal Publishing. 0961052007. 2020-04-02.
  4. Book: Phillips, Cedar Imboden. Early Pasadena. Arcadia Publishing. 2008. 9780738558370. 81.
  5. Web site: 15 August 1904. Miss Susan Homer Stickney Offers Fine Art Gallery to Throop Institute Building Formerly Used for Shakespeare Club Meetings. 2020-04-02. California Digital Newspaper Collection. Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 32.
  6. Web site: On the Edge of America, Post-Surrealism and the Flux: Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, and Knud Merrild. UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004. 2020-04-02.
  7. Web site: Helen Lundeberg. Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141205180159/http://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/helen-lundeberg/. 5 December 2014. 1 April 2020.
  8. Book: Bauduin. Tessel M.. Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous. Ferentinou. Victoria. Routledge. 2018. 9781351379021.
  9. Web site: Sunset as a Quality of Light, Not Life : A show of Helen Lundeberg's works from the 1980s, created in a prolific period after her husband's death, 'offers a spiritual oasis for peaceful contemplation'. 1992-04-05. Los Angeles Times. en-US. 2020-04-02.
  10. Web site: Pasadena Museum of History Showcases "Lost" California Women Artists. 2019-03-03. ColoradoBoulevard.net. en-US. 2020-04-02.
  11. Web site: Mildred Bryant Brooks. 2020-04-02. Laguna Art Museum. en-US.
  12. Web site: Alson Skinner Clark's paintings. University Club of Pasadena. 2020-04-02.
  13. Book: Ehrlich, Susan. Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934–1957. Hammer Museum. 1994. 0-943739-18-7. 94–95.
  14. Book: Watters, Sam. Houses of Los Angeles: 1920-1935. 2007. Acanthus Press. Urban domestic architecture series. 2 of Houses of Los Angeles. 49. 9780926494312 . en.
  15. Web site: Lucile Lloyd papers, 1916-1941. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. en. 2020-04-02.
  16. Web site: Standing Nude, n.d. Richard Edward Miller (American, 1875–1943). Crocker Art Museum. 2020-04-02.

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