Isabelle Clark Percy West facts for kids
Isabelle Clark Percy West (1882–1976) was an American artist, designer and educator based in California known for landscape paintings, early Pacific Coast etching and her role in the founding faculty of California College of the Arts.
Early life and education
Isabelle Clark Percy was born on November 6, 1882, in Alameda, California. Her father was George W. Percy a San Francisco architect.
Percy West studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, formerly the California School of Design and later SFAI, in San Francisco. She went on to attend Columbia University, where she studied under Arthur Wesley Dow She graduated from the Art Department of Teachers College, Columbia University in 1907.
Isabelle Clark Percy married George West, a newspaperman, in 1916.
Work
In the teens, when "On the Pacific Coast, the profession being in its infancy...there are many encouraging creditable productions that command favorable consideration, among them...Helen Hyde and Isabelle Percy with their pictorial colored prints" Isabelle Percy was recognized for her etchings
Awards
In 1915 Percy won a bronze medal for her lithographic print at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Collections
Percy West's work is held in many permanent collections including:
- Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Selected exhibitions
Percy West's work was featured in the 2020 Saint Mary's College Museum of Art exhibit Feminizing Permanence
In 1928 Percy West's paintings of landscapes and Hawaiian flowers were featured in an exhibit of Hawaiian Paintings at The Academy of Arts, Honolulu, now the Honolulu Museum of Art
In 1915 her lithography work was included in the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Percy West exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Hawaii and New York as well as internationally in Paris and Germany.
Teaching
In 1925, when the California School of Arts and Crafts completed its move from Berkeley to a new Oakland campus at the corner of Broadway and College Avenue, West made the move as well and was named as one of "the school's faculty of highly trained specialists" in the Western Journal of Education.
Legacy
In 1968 The Isabelle Percy West Gallery was completed in the topmost level of Founders Hall which was built on the Oakland campus of California College of Arts and Crafts to honor founding faculty of the college.
