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'@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@ {{Infobox person | name = Eric Spencer Macky +| other_names = Spencer Macky, E. Spencer Macky | birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|11|16}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|05|05|1880|11|16}} | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. +| education = [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School]], [[Académie Julian]] +| alma_mater = +| spouse = Constance Lillian Jenkins }} -'''Eric Spencer Macky''', also known simply as '''Spencer Macky''' (1880–1958) was a New Zealand-born American painter and educator.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Eric Spencer Macky|url=https://art.famsf.org/eric-spencer-macky|access-date=2021-07-25|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref> +'''Eric Spencer Macky''', also known simply as '''Spencer Macky''' (1880–1958) was a New Zealand-born American painter, [[Intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio]] printmaker, and educator.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Eric Spencer Macky|url=https://art.famsf.org/eric-spencer-macky|access-date=2021-07-25|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=1954|title=Reminiscences of Eric Spencer and Constance Macky : oral history transcript / and related material, 1954-1957.|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;Institution=UC%20Berkeley::Bancroft%20Library;titlesAZ=R;idT=UCb112348919|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Online Archive of California (OAC)}}</ref> He was known for his landscape paintings and scenes of San Francisco.<ref name=":4" /> -== References == +== Biography == +Eric Spencer Macky was born November 16, 1880 in [[Ponsonby, New Zealand|Ponsonby]]<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Eric Macky|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/926|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Auckland Art Gallery|language=en}}</ref> near [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Hughes|first=Edan Milton|title=Artists in California, 1786-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Artists_in_California_1786_1940.html?id=9LUzAQAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2014-04-07|title=Eric Spencer Macky (1880 – 1958)|url=https://bancroftlibrarycara.wordpress.com/eric-spencer-macky-1880-1958/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-25|website=California Art Research Archive|publisher=The Bancroft Library, [[University of California, Berkeley]]|language=en}}</ref> He was interested in art at a young age and by age 14, he was attending the Elam Art School on a scholarship.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Eric Spencer Macky - Biography|url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Eric_Spencer_Macky/6643/Eric_Spencer_Macky.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-25|website=AskArt.com}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> From 1903 to 1906, Macky attended [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School]] (formally National Gallery School of Painting) studying under [[Lindsay Bernard Hall]];<ref name=":0" /> and continued studies in 1907 at [[Académie Julian]] in Paris under [[Jean-Paul Laurens]].<ref name=":1" /> + +He arrived in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] between 1910 to 1912.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> He taught at California School of Arts and Crafts (now known as [[California College of the Arts]]) from 1913 to 1921; [[University of California, Berkeley]]; and he was the Dean of California School of Fine Arts (now known as [[San Francisco Art Institute]]) from 1919 until 1935.<ref name=":1" /> + +Macky was married to Constance Lillian Jenkins. Their son, Donald Spencer Macky (1913–2007) was an artist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Donald Macky|url=https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/obituaries/donald-macky/article_71cf471a-e912-543b-8a00-1306b043f6e8.html|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Napa Valley Register|language=en}}</ref> + +Macky died on May 5, 1958 in San Francisco.<ref name=":0" /> Macky's work is included in public museum collections, including the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Musée d'Orsay]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eric Spencer Macky|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnels/professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?nnumid=116173|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste}}</ref> and [[Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki]].<ref name=":5" /> In fall 2013, three lost murals were discovered on the campus of San Francisco Art Institute, including ''Spencer Mackey’s Life Drawing Class'' (1936) by Eleanor Bates Streloff.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-31|title=Lost Fresco From 1930 Uncovered at San Francisco Art Institute|url=https://www.7x7.com/lost-fresco-from-1930-uncovered-at-san-francisco-art-institute-1787227514.html|access-date=2021-07-25|website=7x7 Bay Area|language=en}}</ref> + +== AReferences == {{Reflist}} '