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Jan Frederick Stussy BIOGRAPHY
1921 Benton County, Missouri - 1990 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Modernest figure, still-life and landscape easel and mural paintng, teacher.
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in Brentwood Hills, California. For this husband-wife team of artist and sculptress live in a welter of... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in Brentwood Hills, California. For this husband-wife team of artist and sculptress live in a welter of seemingly disordered confusion… Actually, it’s merely a case of two artists whose volume of production has literally spilled over the physical boundaries of the house. Jan Stussy’s current artistic... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in Brentwood Hills, California. For this husband-wife team of artist and sculptress live in a welter of seemingly disordered confusion… Actually, it’s merely a case of two artists whose volume of production has literally spilled over the physical boundaries of the house. Jan Stussy’s current artistic output is around 200 paintings a year. At 36, this associate professor of art at UCLA has achieved an impressive list of exhibitions and awards… Two years ago, he took a sabbatical leave… to do intensive research into little-used and newly developed art... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in Brentwood Hills, California. For this husband-wife team of artist and sculptress live in a welter of seemingly disordered confusion… Actually, it’s merely a case of two artists whose volume of production has literally spilled over the physical boundaries of the house. Jan Stussy’s current artistic output is around 200 paintings a year. At 36, this associate professor of art at UCLA has achieved an impressive list of exhibitions and awards… Two years ago, he took a sabbatical leave… to do intensive research into little-used and newly developed art materials, including quick-drying auto lacquer and household enamels. Some of his findings were incorpor... Read full biography
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Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher.“From a Hillside House. A casual passer-by might well be startled when first viewing the contemporary hillside home of Jan and Kim Stussy in Brentwood Hills, California. For this husband-wife team of artist and sculptress live in a welter of seemingly disordered confusion… Actually, it’s merely a case of two artists whose volume of production has literally spilled over the physical boundaries of the house.Jan Stussy’s current artistic output is around 200 paintings a year. At 36, this associate professor of art at UCLA has achieved an impressive list of exhibitions and awards… Two years ago, he took a sabbatical leave… to do intensive research into little-used and newly developed art materials, including quick-drying auto lacquer and household enamels. Some of his findings were incorporated in work done while he conducted a painting tour through Europe in 1956…,” Source:LA Times, newspaper, Home Magazine, July 7, 1957, p. 12).“Jan Stussy: Multimedia Artist… died Tuesday of cancer at his West Los Angeles home… Stussy, who taught painting and drawing at UCLA for 42 years, was a multifaceted craftsman who worked in paint, silk-screening and film. … Stussy was an experimenter whose imagination led him into psychedelic nudes, to disfigured mannequins, to watercolors and to interchangeable mural panels that he moved about in his home for varied effects.He once mixed coffee grounds with his paints for purposes of texture and often used building materials instead of canvases. He created more than 5,000 paintings, sculptures and prints …Stussy began teaching at UCLA in 1947 … He also taught extension classes from 1957 to 1980 … One of his many and more recent shows was at the Wight Art Gallery in 1984-85. He retired from teaching in 1989.Divorced from sculptor, Maxine Kim Stussy, he is survived by the son, Dieter, and a brother,”Source: LA Times newspaper, Aug. 5, 1990, p. 609 (i.e., A-40).
Note: Additional material can be found in: Nancy Moure, “Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960,” (PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. 13, NO. VII), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2022.Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Benton County, Missouri, Jan Stussy was a California painter who specialized in watercolors, oil paintings, prints, and murals. He was a student at the Art Center School in Los Angeles with Barse Miller and also studied at the University of Southern California, and Long Beach City College. Other teachers were Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Frances de Erdely. Extensive travels took him to the Orient, Europe, and South America.
He served in the Navy during World War II and returned to California after the war. He exhibited regularly with the California Watercolor Society and did many abstract still lifes and figurative subjects.
From 1946, he was an instructor of art and later professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. He was also a technical consultant in the movie industry and did art commissions for large corporations.
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Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, "California Watercolors". Based on 1984 interview with the artist.Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Missouri on Aug. 13, 1921. Stussy appears to have moved to southern California in the late 1930s. For 45 years he taught at UCLA. He died in Los Angeles on July 31, 1990. Exh: Calif. WC Society, 1942-55; American Contemporary Gallery (LA), 1944; Artists of LA, LACMA, 1948; County Fair (LA), 1949; UCLA, 1951.