Stickney Memorial Art School

Stickney Memorial Art School
Location
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Information
Other namesStickney Art Institute,
Stickney Memorial School of Art
Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts
School typeArt school
Establishedc.1912
Closed1934

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][2] 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.[2] 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.[3][5] In 1934 the original location was razed and the new location was at Carmelita Gardens and changed names to Pasadena Art Institute.[1]

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.[8] Modernist painter Grace Clements, a member of Feitelson and Lundeberg's Post Surrealism group, also taught at the Stickney.

The Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954,[1] and eventually became the Norton Simon Museum.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

References

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  5. ^ "Miss Susan Homer Stickney Offers Fine Art Gallery to Throop Institute Building Formerly Used for Shakespeare Club Meetings". California Digital Newspaper Collection. Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 32. 15 August 1904. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
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