Eric Spencer Macky
Eric Spencer Macky | |
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Born | Ponsonby, New Zealand | November 16, 1880
Died | May 5, 1958 San Francisco, California, U.S. | (aged 77)
Other names | Spencer Macky, E. Spencer Macky |
Education | Elam Art School, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Académie Julian |
Spouse | Constance Lillian Jenkins (m. 1912–1958; death) |
Children | 2 |
Eric Spencer Macky, also known simply as Spencer Macky (1880–1958) was a New Zealand-born American painter, intaglio printmaker, and educator.[1][2] He was known for his landscape paintings and scenes of San Francisco.[3]
Biography
Eric Spencer Macky was born November 16, 1880, in Ponsonby[4] near Auckland, New Zealand.[5][6] He was interested in art at a young age and by age 14, he was attending the Elam Art School on a scholarship and studied under C. F. Goldie.[7][3][5] From 1903 to 1906, Macky attended National Gallery of Victoria Art School (formally National Gallery School of Painting) studying under Lindsay Bernard Hall;[6] and continued studies in 1907 at Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens.[1]
Macky arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1910 and 1912.[1][6][2] He taught at California School of Arts and Crafts (now known as California College of the Arts) from 1913 to 1921; University of California, Berkeley; and he was the Dean of California School of Fine Arts (now known as San Francisco Art Institute) from 1919 until 1935.[1] He had notable students including Robert Boardman Howard,[8] George Post,[9] and John Melville Kelly. In 1944 Spencer Macky was appointed President of California College of Arts and Crafts when the college's 1907 founder Frederick Meyer retired. Macky held this position for a decade, until 1954.[10]
Eric Spencer Macky and his spouse Constance founded in 1916, the Spencer Macky Art School in San Francisco.[11] The first location of the school was at Post Street, near Gough Street in a building that housed many other notable artists including Leo Lentelli, Clark Hobart, William Claussen, Louise Mahoney, Florence Lundberg, Sigmund Beel, and George Hyde.[12] The school was popular and moved to a larger space at the "Artists Building" at 535 Sacramento Street in San Francisco.[12] By 1917, the Spencer Macky Art School was merged with the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA; now known as the San Francisco Art Institute).[12]
Macky was married to Constance Lillian Jenkins in 1912 in Berkeley, California.[13] They had two sons, their son, Donald Spencer Macky (1913–2007) was an artist.[14][13]
Death and legacy
Macky died on May 5, 1958, in San Francisco.[6] Macky's work is included in public museum collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[1] Musée d'Orsay,[15] Seattle Art Museum,[16] and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.[4]
In fall 2013, three lost murals were discovered on the campus of San Francisco Art Institute, including Spencer Mackey’s Life Drawing Class (1936) by Eleanor Bates Streloff.[17] Artist Ruth Cravath carved a bust of Macky in 1935, which is now part of the collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[18]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Eric Spencer Macky". FAMSF Search the Collections. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ a b "Reminiscences of Eric Spencer and Constance Macky : oral history transcript / and related material, 1954-1957". Online Archive of California (OAC). 1954. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Eric Spencer Macky - Biography". AskArt.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Eric Macky". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ a b Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). Artists in California, 1786-1940. ISBN 9780961611217.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "Eric Spencer Macky (1880 – 1958)". California Art Research Archive. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Julius, Harry (1919). "E. Spencer Macky". In Smith, Sydney Ure; Stevens, Bertram; Jones, C. Lloyd (eds.). Art in Australia. Vol. 6. Anthony Horderon and Sons, Ltd. Sydney, Australia: Argus and Robertson, Limited. p. 39.
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B., ed. (1986). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo. ISBN 978-0-938290-04-9.
- ^ McClelland, Gordon T.; Last, Jay T. (2002). California Watercolors 1850-1970. Hillcrest Press, Inc. – via CalArt.com.
- ^ CCAC the Art College in the Community. the Press of the California College of Arts and Crafts. pp. 16–17. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ^ Hailey, Gene; Schwartz, Ellen Halteman, eds. (1937). California Art Research (PDF). Series 1, W.P.A. Project 2874. Vol. 15. San Francisco, California (published 1987). pp. 99–118. ISBN 0-910938-88-1.
- ^ a b c Hailey, Gene; Schwartz, Ellen Halteman, eds. (1937). California Art Research (PDF). Series 1, W.P.A. Project 2874. Vol. 15. San Francisco, California (published 1987). pp. 99–118. ISBN 0-910938-88-1.
- ^ a b Hailey, Gene; Schwartz, Ellen Halteman, eds. (1937). California Art Research (PDF). Series 1, W.P.A. Project 2874. Vol. 15. San Francisco, California (published 1987). pp. 99–118. ISBN 0-910938-88-1.
- ^ "Donald Macky". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Eric Spencer Macky". Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Spencer Macky". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Lost Fresco From 1930 Uncovered at San Francisco Art Institute". 7x7 Bay Area. 2015-08-31. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Head of E. Spencer Macky". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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- Photo of Spencer Macky (1948) from the Hagemeyer (Johan) Photograph Collection
- Reminiscences of Eric Spencer and Constance Macky: oral history transcript / Eric S. Macky; tape recorded interview conducted in 1954. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1957: and related material, 1954-1957.
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