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Southern American Scene Painter/John Lapsley
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John Lapsley (American, b. 1915 Selma, Alabama) painted this Southern American Scene watercolor, "Hot Springs, Arkansas", in 1940. The painting measures 22 x 24 inches. Lapsley received his initial training at the University of Alabama under Bertha Miller and studied at Phillips Gallery of Art in Washington, DC with C. Law Watkins and Robert Gates, where he came into direct contact with and was influenced by the works of the French Moderns Renoir, Bonnard, Roualt, Braque, Vuillard, and Matisse. He then took classes from Gifford Beale and Leon Kroll at the National Academy of Art (NYC)and was offered a scholarship to attend the Florence Cane School of Art as an assistant to Jean Charlot in fresco and Emilio Amero in lithography. Lapsley returned to Alabama in 1936 to attend Birmingham-Southern College, exhibited at the Birmingham Art Club, and met Lamar Dodd, another Alabama artist who advised him to get a lamp and work at night so his colors would be less vibrant. Lapsley was invited to exhibit with the New South Group in 1939 and also taught at the New South School and Gallery in 1939.Like Charles Shannon, Lamar Dodd, Howard Cook and Crawford Gillis and many other Southern American Scene painters during the 1930s, he was drawn to the works of the Mexican muralists and studied for a while with Jean Charlot,who had actually worked in Mexico with Diego Rivera, the master of the technique. Lapsley eventually made his own pilgramage to Mexico to meet Rivera. Upon graduation from Birmingham-Southern College in 1940, he was drafted into the Army Air Force and worked as an artist-illustrator at Craig Field in Selma until 1958, when he took a sabbatical to get a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.Lapsley taught art at Auburn University for two years, then returned to Montgomery, AL to work at Maxwell Field until his retirement.
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