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Birth
1911 (British Columbia, Canada)
Death
1944 (Los Angeles, California)
Lived/Active
California
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
town-landscape, figure, lithographs
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted May 2005, is from Ian McDougal Patrick, son of the artist.
James
Patrick was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He studied at
Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and was a member of the
California Water Color Society. James Patrick grew up in Southern
California, and attended high school in Hollywood. In the late 1920s,
he received a three-year scholarship to study at the Chouinard Art
Institute.
During the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered an important figure in the
development of the California Style, a movement from the 1920s to the 1950s focused on bold watercolor painting.
His
paintings were exhibited with the California Water Color Society as
well as many juried and one-man shows both locally and nationally. In
1942, he served as the California Water Color Society's president.
After
graduation, James Patrick taught figure drawing and landscape painting
at the Chouinard Art Institute. He often took groups of students to
various locations in the Los Angeles area and taught them to do
spontaneous watercolor paintings of local city scenes. He also worked
on several large mural projects with painter Millard Sheets and was
involved in pre-production animation for the motion picture industry at
Walt Disney Studios. Among his projects were "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" and "Pinocchio".
During World War II he worked in
collaboration with Phil Paradise producing a book for the United States
Army Air Corps on the art, detection and recognition of camouflage. He
and Paradise served as civilian instructors for the Air Corps as well,
training fledgling bombardiers in aerial target recognition and
concealment deduction. In addition he was assigned "Chief Camoufleur"
by the Western Defense Command for the Pacific Coast. He was tasked
with the planning and concealment of
all the facilities vital to the war effort that could possibly be targets for enemy attack.
Perhaps
less known was that Patrick was a passionate print maker. He excelled
in pre-printing techniques involved with producing lithographs and
prepared his own stones. He produced a large number of limited editions
on various subjects. His most illustrious is a suite of six lithographs
of the "Native Trees of California" that were used as covers for
"WESTWAYS" Magazine in 1940. "California Big Tree" and another litho
entitled "This is Your Enemy" are in the permanent collections of the
Library of Congress.
Examples
of Patrick's art in mediums of oil, watercolor, and lithography are
found today in private and museum collections across the nation. He was
frequently invited to exhibit in many prestigious shows during his
lifetime. Included are the Corcoran Institute of Washington, D.C., the
Chicago Art Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National
Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution, American Water Color
Society
in New York, and the Riverside Museum. Considered a high tribute was
that Dr. A. Avinoff, director of the Carnegie Museum, personally bought
two of his watercolors.
For a career cut short in its prime he
managed to create a fair representation of his talent and craft.
Unfortunately while still a young man, age 33, he succumbed to
tuberculosis in December of 1944.
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James
Patrick was born in 1911 in British Columbia, Canada. He spent most of
his life in Southern California. For three years he attended the
Chouinard Art Institute. At the age of twenty he began his short life
career of teaching figure drawing and landscape painting. He had a
remarkable career; he was a member of the California Watercolor Society
and did several mural commissions. He is credited with playing a
significant part in developing the California style of Regional
painting. But he died in 1944 at the age of thirty-three of
tuberculosis.
Source:
From the Internet, AskART.com
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher form Laguna Woods, California.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born on Sept. 14, 1911 in Cranbrook, B.C., Canada. At age five Patrick settled in Los Angeles with his family. Following graduation from Hollywood High School in 1929, he won a scholarship to study at Chouinard Art School under Hinkle, Murphy, Chamberlin, and Sheets. He later taught figure drawing and landscape painting at Chouinard and was active in Los Angeles until his death of tuberculosis on Nov. 8, 1944. Exh: LA Co. Fair, 1933 (2nd prize), 1936 (3rd prize), 1937 (2nd prize); Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1933-38; Calif. WC Society, 1935-45; Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1937; Zeitlin Gallery (LA), 1937, 1940 (solos); Padua Hills Theater (Claremont), 1938; Calif. State Fair, 1938, 1939 (prizes); All-Calif. Show (LA), 1939; GGIE, 1939; Chouinard Gallery, 1940 (solo); LACMA, 1942 (solo); Nat'l Print Show (Washington, DC), 1943 (2nd prize). In: LACMA; Library of Congress (lithos); South Pasadena High School (frescoes, done with M. Sheets); State Mutual Loan Bldg (LA); J. W. Robinson Co. (LA). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Who's Who in American Art 1938-41; Drawings & Illustrations by Southern California Artists (Wall Moore, Nancy Dustin, et al; Laguna Beach Museum of Art); Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; Los Angeles Times, 12-24-1944 (obituary). | | 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 CalART.com:
| Biography provided courtesy of “California Watercolors 1850-1970” By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last.
James Patrick (1911-1944)...
Born: Cranbrook, British Columbia
Studied: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles)
Member: California Water Color Society.
James Patrick grew up in Southern California and attended high school in Hollywood. In the late 1920s, he received a three-year scholarship to study at the Chouinard Art Institute. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an important figure in the development of the California Style. His paintings were exhibited with the California Water Color Society and in 1942, he served as the Society's president. Patrick also taught figure drawing and landscape painting at the Chouinard Art Institute.
He often took groups of students to various locations in the Los Angeles area and taught them to do spontaneous watercolor paintings of local city scenes. In addition, he worked on several large mural projects with Millard Sheets and did pre-production art for the motion picture industry.
Biographical information:California Water Color Society (Catalogs) Claremont Fine Arts Gallery, Claremont, 1994. |
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