"UNTITLED"
EGG TEMPRA ON PANEL, SIGNED
C.1950
18 X 14 INCHES
Palmer Schoppe 1912-2001 Schoppe was born in Woods Cross, Utah on April 2, 1912, Palmer Schoppe moved with his family to southern California in 1920 and settled in Santa Monica. Artistically inclined, he began painting when quite young. He was educated at UCLA and, following one year in the Merchant Marines, he attended Yale School of Fine Arts and the ASL in NYC. After returning to Los Angeles in 1934, he produced lithographs and abstract watercolors of the black people of South Carolina's low country and jazz musicians. Schoppe taught at the Disney Studio Training School (1934-37), Chouinard Art Institute (1935-42), Art Center School (1945-53), and USC Film Dept (1954-76). Palmer Schoppe was one of the group of artists who participated in the cultural flowering of the 1920s through 1940 that is called the Charleston Renaissance. In his choice of subjects and of media (lithographs and paintings) Schoppe contributed to a nationwide interest in Lowcountry life and culture. Schoppe visited Charleston and nearby sea islands in 1934. He was an acquaintance of Dubose Heyward, Alfred Hutty, and others who were recording in art and literature the culture of local African Americans and of the former planter aristocracy. While in the area he prepared studies for a series of lithographs that he called A Low Country Portfolio. Schoppe died in Santa Monica on March 11, 2001. Exhibitions: Collections: |