Orrin Augustine White (1883 - 1969) was an American painter. His studio was in Pasadena, California.
Orrin Augustine White | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1883 Hanover, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | 1969 |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Occupation | Painter |
Life
editWhite was born in 1883 in Hanover, Illinois.[1] He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1902.[1][2] He was an assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Portland in Oregon.[1]
White began his artistic career as a textile designer until he became an interior designer in Los Angeles in 1906, and he took up painting in 1912.[1] Two of his paintings were exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.[2] He served in World War I, and he later opened a studio in Pasadena.[2] He was on the advisory council of the South Pasadena chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters.[3]
White gave private lessons in landscape painting to California artist Ben Abril.[4]
White died in 1969.[1] His work was exhibited by the South Pasadena chapter of the NSAL shortly after his death, and they set up the Orrin White Scholarship Fund in his memory.[3] One of his paintings in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Ungermann-Marshall, Yana (2008). Flintridge. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 9780738555850. OCLC 177000610.
- ^ a b c d "Orrin Augustine White". LACMA. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- ^ a b "Society of Arts & Letters Plan Tea on May 13 at Exhibit". South Pasadena Review. May 12, 1969. p. 5. Retrieved July 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Ben Abril: About this artist". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
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