Harry Stuart Fonda

Harry Stuart Fonda (1864–1942) was an American painter, musician, and professor, best known for his marine and landscape paintings.

Harry Stuart Fonda
Born(1864-08-24)August 24, 1864
Marysville, California, U.S.
DiedAugust 9, 1942(1942-08-09) (aged 77)
Carthage, New York, U.S.
EducationCalifornia School of Design, Académie Julian
Known forPainting

History

Harry Stuart Fonda was born August 24, 1864 in Marysville, California.[1] He was born in a family of six children, to parents Eleanor (née Middleton) and William Thomas Fonda.[1] From 1883–1885 he studied at California School of Design (now known as San Francisco Art Institute) with Virgil Macey Williams.[1] From 1893–1896 he studied at Académie Julian with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.[1]

While still living in Paris on February 9, 1896, he married singer May Elizabeth MacLeod.[1] Together with his new wife they moved to California sometimes in late 1896, eventually settling in to a home and studio at 3011 Sacramento Street in San Francisco.[1][2] Fonda was a member of the Bohemian Club, joining on November 18, 1896.[3] He sometimes taught private classes from his studio.[2] Frequently in summers he would teach art classes in Monterey, California.[4]

From 1897 until 1899, he was an instructor at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute).[1] Other artists working at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art during this time period included Thomas Hill, Ernest Narjot, Warren Eliphalet Rollins, Emil Carlsen, Amedee Joullin, Raymond Dabb Yelland, Oscar Kunath, Lee Lash, and Douglas Tilden.[4][5] Fonda's students included Pedro Joseph de Lemos, amongst others.

His oil painting, House of the Four Winds, was bought by President William McKinley.[2]

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fonda moved to Monterey, California and taught art in the public schools for one year.[1] Fonda was a musician, a piano player and piano teacher, and he wrote a comic operetta called Prince Toggerty (1910) and starred Josephine Bruguière (mother of artist Francis Bruguière).[6][7]

His wife May died in San Francisco in 1929.[8] In 1940, he moved to Carthage, New York to live with his daughter Louise "Elsie" LeRoy Martin, and his son-in-law.[9] He died on August 9, 1942 in Carthage.[9]

References
  1. Shields, Scott A. (2006-04-17). Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907. University of California Press. pp. 223–225. ISBN 978-0-520-24739-0.
  2. Hughes, Edan (2002). Artists in California 1786-1940. Crocker Art Museum.
  3. "Constitution, by-laws and rules, officers, committees, and members / The Bohemian Club, San Francisco. 1911". HathiTrust. San Francisco, CA: Brown and Power Stationery Company and Press. April 18, 1911. p. 86. Retrieved 2020-10-23 – via Google Books.
  4. Mark Hopkins Institute Review of Art. San Francisco, California: Hicks-Judd Company. 1899. pp. 30, 40.
  5. Douglass, John; Thomas, Sally (2001). "The California School of Design: Supplement of the Mark Hopkins Institute Review of Art". The Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  6. "Harry Stuart Fonda, 79, Artist, Musician Dies". Newspapers.com. The Sacramento Bee. 11 August 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  7. "New Opera Staged To-night, Mrs. Emil Bruguiere in Cast". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 3 May 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  8. "Mrs. Fonda Funeral Service Tomorrow". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 12 Sep 1929. p. 19. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  9. Army and Navy Journal. Army and Navy Journal, Incorporated. 1942.
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