Biography from William A. Karges Fine Art - Beverly Hills:
| Clarence Hinkle was born in Auburn, California, in 1880, and grew up on a ranch outside Sacramento. Hinkle studied at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, Art Students League in New York, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Academie Colarossi and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he was greatly influenced by Impressionism.
He returned to the U.S. in 1912, spending 5 years living and exhibiting his works in San Francisco, before moving to Southern California to teach at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design and Chouinard Institute. Hinkle remained active as a painter and teacher in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, where he died in 1960. |
Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Auburn, CA on June 19, 1880. Early in life Hinkle moved with his family to a ranch outside of Sacramento where his father had a carriage painting business. When quite young he began art studies locally under William F. Jackson at the Crocker Art Gallery. Hinkle later moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews. He then studied at the ASL in NYC under Wm Chase and at the PAFA where he won the Cresson Scholarship for six years at Académie Colarossi and Ecole des Beaux Arts. While in Paris he was greatly influenced by the Impressionists and Pointillists. Upon his return in 1912, he established a studio in San Francisco and began exhibiting locally. His works were considered avant garde and daring during this period. After moving to Los Angeles in 1917, he accepted a teaching position at the School of Art & Design and became the first art instructor at the newly founded Chouinard School of Art in 1921. While continuing to teach in Los Angeles, Hinkle was a resident of Laguna Beach (a street is named for him there) until his final move in 1935 to a newly built home overlooking the harbor of Santa Barbara. During the 1940s he taught at the Santa Barbara School of Art and was active there until his death on July 20, 1960. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits and figure paintings. Exh: Calif. State Fair, 1901, 1926; Sacramento Art League, 1912; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1913; PPIE, 1915; SFAA, 1916; Calif. Art Club, 1918-44 (medals); LACMA, 1919, 1921 (prize); Woman’s Club (Hollywood), 1920; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1922; Orange County Fair, 1926; Laguna Beach AA, 1926-28 (1st prizes); Group of Eight, 1927; Exposition Bldg (LA), 1928; Pasadena Art Inst., 1929 (prize); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932, 1937 (prize), 1939; Calif. WC Society, 1932-55; Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1935; Santa Barbara Art League, 1939; GGIE, 1939; Montecito Country Club, 1940; PAFA; NAD. In: LACMA; Santa Barbara Museum; Crocker Museum; De Young Museum; Oakland Museum; Orange Co. (CA) Museum; San Diego Museum; Irvine (CA) Museum. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Impressionism, The California View; Los Angeles Times, 6-3-1917; California Impressionism (Wm. Gerdts & Will South); Plein Air Painters (Ruth Westphal); Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Art in California (R. L. Bernier, 1916); American Art Annual 1931; Los Angeles Times, 6-4-1933; Who's Who in American Art 1938-59; Fifteen & Fifty. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
Biography from AskART:
| An academy trained California painter of landscape, portrait, and still lifes, Clarence Hinkle experimented with a variety of styles and was part of a "Group of Eight" California artists who exhibited modernist work.
He was born in Auburn, California and grew up on a ranch near Sacramento. His first art instruction was at the nearby Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, and then, as a young man, he moved to San Francisco where he enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Institute and studied under Arthur Mathews.
Later he was to study under John Twachtman at the Art Students League in New York City and then with William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy where he was exposed to American Impressionism as well as many other styles.
From the Pennsylvania Academy he earned a Cresson Traveling Scholarship and spent six years studying in Europe, first in Holland and then in France. In paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, Colarossi and the Julian Academy but later claimed that he learned the most from his walks through the Louvre. He was especially intrigued by the Georgian portraits of Gainsborough, Lawrence, Copley, and Raeburn.
He returned to the East Coast in 1912 and then went to California where in 1913, he had a successful one-man show in San Francisco. He established a studio there and became a prominent member of the art community in that area. At the Pacific International Exposition of 1915, he and Rinaldo Cuneo decorated several buildings including that of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company.
In 1917, Hinkle moved to Los Angeles where he taught at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and then became the first instructor in painting and drawing of the Chouinard School of Art. He was highly influential on a number of prominent California artists includig Millard Sheets and Phil Dike.
He married Mabel Hunter Bain, and later lived in Laguna Beach from 1931 to 1935 before moving to Santa Barbara where he resided for the next twenty-five years until his death.
Source:"Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland" by Ruth Westphal |
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Clarence Hinkle is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
California Painters
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