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John Stockton de Martelly
John Stockton de Martelly
John Stockton de Martelly

John Stockton de Martelly

born Philadelphia, Pennysylvania, 1903; died Okemos, Michigan 1979
BiographyJohn Stockton de Martelly studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under Thomas Hart Benton then traveled to Europe to study at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, and the Royal College of Art, London. In the 1930s and 1940s he taught printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute then became a professor of art at Michigan State University. He became well-known for his regionalist prints which are now in the collections of many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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