Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Carpenter, Dudley S. |
Role |
Artist |
Dates & places of birth and death |
(1870-1955) b. Nashville, TN d. Santa Barbara, CA |
Places of Residence |
Born in Tennessee in 1870, Carpenter arrived in Santa Barbara in 1920. At the time already an accomplished artist having studied in Paris and the Art Students League, he had been exhibiting his work since the 1890s. Though he eventually gravitated toward portraiture, he was also a muralist and landscape painter. In Santa Barbara, he branched out by painting stage sets for the community Arts Players and teaching at the School of the Art. During the Depression, finding that commissions for his portraits were drying up, he returned to sculpture to create three dimensional portraits. A founder of Santa Barbara Art League in 1924, with the financial assistance of Mrs. Max Schott, Katie Peake's mother, he reopened the defunct School of the Arts as the Alhecama Art Center in 1939. - Beresford, Hattie, "The Artists of the Hamilton Chessboard" Montecito Journal - Way It Was, Winter 2023. |
About the Artist |
Active/lived in California, Tennessee. Dudley Carpenter is known for Portrait painter, illustrator, teacher. |
