Harry Stuart Fonda
Harry Stuart Fonda | |
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Born | Marysville, California, U.S. | August 24, 1864
Died | August 9, 1942 Carthage, New York, U.S. | (aged 77)
Education | California School of Design, Académie Julian |
Known for | Painting |
Harry Stuart Fonda (1864–1942) was an American painter, musician, and professor, best known for his marine and landscape paintings.
History[]
Harry Stuart Fonda was born August 24, 1864 in Marysville, California.[1] He was born in a family of six children, to parents Eleanor (née Middleton) and William Thomas Fonda.[1] From 1883–1885 he studied at California School of Design (now known as San Francisco Art Institute) with Virgil Macey Williams.[1] From 1893–1896 he studied at Académie Julian with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.[1]
While still living in Paris on February 9, 1896, he married singer May Elizabeth MacLeod.[1] Together with his new wife they moved to California sometimes in late 1896, eventually settling in to a home and studio at 3011 Sacramento Street in San Francisco.[1][2] Fonda was a member of the Bohemian Club, joining on November 18, 1896.[3] He sometimes taught private classes from his studio.[2] Frequently in summers he would teach art classes in Monterey, California.[4]
From 1897 until 1899, he was an instructor at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute).[1] Other artists working at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art during this time period included Thomas Hill, Ernest Narjot, , Emil Carlsen, Amedee Joullin, Raymond Dabb Yelland, , , and Douglas Tilden.[4][5] Fonda's students included Pedro Joseph de Lemos, amongst others.
His oil painting, House of the Four Winds, was bought by President William McKinley.[2]
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fonda moved to Monterey, California and taught art in the public schools for one year.[1] Fonda was a musician, a piano player and piano teacher, and he wrote a comic operetta called Prince Toggerty (1910) and starred Josephine Bruguière (mother of artist Francis Bruguière).[6][7]
His wife May died in San Francisco in 1929.[8] In 1940, he moved to Carthage, New York to live with his daughter Louise "Elsie" LeRoy Martin, and his son-in-law.[9] He died on August 9, 1942 in Carthage.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Shields, Scott A. (2006-04-17). Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907. University of California Press. pp. 223–225. ISBN 978-0-520-24739-0.
- ^ a b c Hughes, Edan (2002). Artists in California 1786-1940. Crocker Art Museum.
- ^ "Constitution, by-laws and rules, officers, committees, and members / The Bohemian Club, San Francisco. 1911". HathiTrust. San Francisco, CA: Brown and Power Stationery Company and Press. April 18, 1911. p. 86. Retrieved 2020-10-23 – via Google Books.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Mark Hopkins Institute Review of Art. San Francisco, California: Hicks-Judd Company. 1899. pp. 30, 40.
- ^ Douglass, John; Thomas, Sally (2001). "The California School of Design: Supplement of the Mark Hopkins Institute Review of Art". The Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Harry Stuart Fonda, 79, Artist, Musician Dies". Newspapers.com. The Sacramento Bee. 11 August 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "New Opera Staged To-night, Mrs. Emil Bruguiere in Cast". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 3 May 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Mrs. Fonda Funeral Service Tomorrow". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 12 Sep 1929. p. 19. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Army and Navy Journal. Army and Navy Journal, Incorporated. 1942.
External links[]
- 1864 births
- 1942 deaths
- Artists from San Francisco
- San Francisco Art Institute faculty
- San Francisco Art Institute alumni
- Académie Julian
- People from Monterey, California
- People from Marysville, California
- American music educators