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An example of work by Douglas McKinley Shively
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Santa Paula, Douglas went to local elementary and high schools. He attended the University of Southern California and Occidental College before winning his only lottery, that being the Draft.
He served in France during W.W.I and upon discharge returned home to finish his education, start a family and eventually go into the banking business with his father.
Art had become an integral part of his daily life and continued to become more than just a hobby when in the 1920's he began painting with artists from the Los Angeles area who eventually became nationally known. Their influence and becoming acquainted with Robert Clunie, Jessie Arms Botke and her husband Cornelis Botke led to the inspiration to start annual art shows here. That show was sponsored for many years by the Chamber of Commerce and is now presented by the Santa Paula Society of the Arts.
He enjoyed a unique three - dimensional career as bank president, rancher (60 acres of avocados) and as an artist.
He made many sketching trips throughout Southern California with artists including John Cotton, George Otis, Paul Sample and Ralph Holmes. He made fifteen painting trips to Asia, Scandinavia, Great Britain and Europe.
Examples of his works are held by various county hospitals, libraries, and the Santa Paula City collection which includes city offices, S.P. Memorial Hospital, the Elementary School District as well as the S.P. Union High School District.
A well-loved artist in his own home town, Douglas Shively has paintings in most every OLD family home in the area.
Prepared and submitted April 2005 by Virginia Gunderson for the Santa Paula Society of the Arts |
Biography from City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection:
| Douglas Shively: (1896-1991)
A Santa Paula resident for nearly a century, Douglas Shively contributed to the community as a banker and a rancher, but was best known as a California Impressionist with a talent for graceful and vivid landscapes. As an artist, Douglas was largely self-taught. Although he took formal studio courses, he felt he learned most by working with George Demont Otis, Paul Sample, Ralph Holmes and other significant landscape painters of the 1930s and ‘40s.
A prolific and disciplined artist, he generally completed a painting in two days, covering the entire canvas on the first with lights and darks and basic shapes, and then crafting the details of a natural setting on the second. Often he
incorporated innovative techniques such as painting in the skies with his thumb. As a skillful colorist, his landscapes appear natural and dramatically vivid. His work was so esteemed that between 1930 and 1985 he sold nearly a thousand paintings, many of which presently exist in private and public collections.
Douglas Shively was a member of the California Art Club, the Buenaventura Art Association, and the Santa Paula Art Association. He founded the Santa Paula Art and Photography Competition, which is now the longest running show of its kind in California. He is also well remembered for his many civic contributions such as providing the seed money for the Santa Paula Library and Santa Clara Valley Hospital. In 1968 the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce named him Citizen of the Year.
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Landscape painter. Born in Santa Paula, CA on April 10, 1896.
Following WWI, Shively was educated at UC. He took some art courses at Occidental College but was essentially a selftaught artist. Active in Santa Paula civic affairs, in 1936 he organized the Chamber of Commerce Show and acted as its director for many years. He enjoyed a unique three-dimensional career as bank president, rancher (60 acres of avocados), and artist. He made many sketching trips throughout southern California with artists like John Cotton, George Demont Otis, Paul Sample, and Ralph Holmes, and made 15 painting trips to Asia and Europe.
A successful painter, he sold 942 paintings from 1930-84. Shiveley lived in Santa Paula until his demise on Aug. 5, 1991. Member: Calif. Art Club; Buenaventura AA; Santa Paula AA. Exh: Santa Cruz Art League, 1935; Ojai Art Center, 1954 (solo); Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce, 1965 (1st prize); London, 1975. In: Santa Paula City Hall and county hospitals and libraries. & lnvw; CA&A; WWAA 1938-56; WWC 1942. | | 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. |
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Douglas Shively is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
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