Pansy Stockton

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Pansy C. Stockton
Born
Pansy Cornelia Repass

(1895-03-31)March 31, 1895
DiedFebruary 20, 1972(1972-02-20) (aged 76)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCory School
Known for"sun paintings"
Spouses
  • Roscoe K. Stockton
  • Howard W. Fatheree

Pansy Cornelia Stockton (1895–1972) was an American artist born in El Dorado Springs, Missouri. At age six, she traveled by late model covered wagon to Colorado, moving around with her family from La Junta to Durango to Silverton to Fruita and finally to Eldorado Springs, Colorado where her parents ran a resort hotel.[1] Stockton was known for "sun paintings and landscapes using bark, moss, leaves and other flora" in her work.[2] Over the course of her career "Stockton used fragments of hundreds of varieties of vegetations as mediums in her work. These elements included ferns, bark, weeds, leaves, and twigs, and some of her pictures had as many as 1,000 components, and during her career she worked with 250 kinds of vegetation from all over the world. On the backs of some of these assemblages, she listed the items and where she found them."[3] She made her first sun painting in 1916 when she was living in Durango, Colorado.[4] Pansy was one of the 52 original founding members of the Denver Artists Guild in 1928, later renamed the Colorado Artists Guild in 1990.

In 1936 Stockton was formally adopted by the

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the Stark Museum of Art
, as well as her close family's homes.

References

  1. ^ "Pansy Cornelia Stockton – David Cook Galleries". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., “North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary” Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995
  3. ^ "Pansy Stockton". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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  5. ^ "This Is Your Life: Pansy Stockton Show Notes". Ralph Edwards Productions. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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