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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
In the Rockies, Estes Park
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| The following is provided by Dan Ankeney, great nephew of the artist who wrote that the artist "died the year I was born and my knowledge of him is through my father. His fondest memories were of spending the summers at his uncle John's cabins in Estes Park, Colorado in the 1920s. . . .This bio material really comes from an art exhibit John was holding at the Granada Apartment Hotel in Chicago where he exhibited oils, watercolors and pastels. They took their bio notes from 'Who's Who.' " (1940-1941)
John Sites Ankeney was born in Xenia, Ohio, April 21, 1870. He was the son of John Sites Ankeney and Margaret Edelia (Hutchison) Ankeney.
He studied at the Art Students League, New York, 1889-90, 1892-93; Paris 1893-94-95, 1903-04; Europe 1905, 1908, 1912; Summer School at Harvard 1901, 1914; A. B. University of Missouri 1906; Litt. D., Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, 1926.
He married Lucy Wyatt Gentry at Columbia, Missouri, on October 16, 1901. At the University of Missouri, he was an Instructor in Art 1901; Assistant Professor 1905; Associate Professor 1911; Professor 1913-1935 and was on leave there from 1929-35 to serve as Director and Curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas.
From 1933 to 1934, he was Regional Director for Public Works of Art Project, Oklahoma and Texas. He also served as a Member of the Advisory Committee on Decoration of Post Office and Justice Buildings in Washington D.C. 1935, and Department of Interior Building 1936; From 1935 to 1937, he was Professor of Fine Arts and Head off Department, Louisiana State University.
He is represented in the collections of the University of Missouri; Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri; Smoky River Art Club, Lindsborg, Kansas; Carl Milles Collection, Cranbrook, Michigan; Mrs. Leslie M. Maitland Collection, Estes Park, Colorado and Los Angeles.
Memberships included the following: Art Commission for Central West, Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915; Member American Honorary Committee of Fontainebleau (France) School of Fine Arts since 1923; Leader of Bureau of University Travel 1929; Member of American Advisory Committee at International Congress for Art Education in London 1908; Member of American Official Committee, Dresden, Germany, 1912; Member of Western Arts Association (Treasurer 1901-02, President 1902-03); Chairman of Committee on Conditions of Art Work in Colleges and Universities 1907-11, College Art Association of America (Chairman of Committee on Organization 1912); American Association of University Professors; New Orleans Art Association; Southern States Art League; American Art Protective League; Phi Mu Alpha; Delta Phi Delta.
Ankeney exhibited in Chicago, New York and many of the larger cities and had one-man shows at the Denver Art Museum, the University of Missouri, at St. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Iowa and elsewhere.
He was awarded first prize for Water Colors at New Orleans in 1936. His home was at 906 Conley Avenue, Columbia, Missouri.
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Ankeney Quoted in American Art Review Dec 2001:
What a great pleasure to read the first paragraph of the article "Dallas Museum of Art" by Eleanor Jones Harvey and Lyle C. Gray in the December 2001 issue of American Art Review: "Shortly after his arrival in 1932, Dr. John S. Ankeney, the first professional director of the Dallas Museum of Art, observed: 'Nature made Dallas rich, Time will make her powerful, but only Art an make her great.' He well understood the role of a major art museum to give focus to a city's cultural aspirations, particularly a young ambitious city like Dallas. The DMA is presently the largest encyclopedic art museum in the southern half of the United States...
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