Roi Partridge, Etcher (1915) - Imogen Cunningham

George Roy Partridge (October 14, 1888 – January 25, 1984), also known professionally as Roi Partridge, was an American printmaker and teacher. He was born in Centralia, Washington. At age four he moved with his family to Seattle, where his father worked as a typesetter and later owned the local newspaper. In Seattle, Partridge was one of three Seattle artists who worked together under the name "The Triad". The others were painter John Butler and miniaturist

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. Also in their circle were photographer—and Partridge's future wife— Imogen Cunningham, and painters Mabel Lisle Ducasse and

Yasushi Tanaka Yasushi Tanaka (Japanese, Tanaka Yasushi:田中保; 13 May 1886 – 24 April 1941) was a Japanese-born artist and art teacher, best known for his portraits of women. Life Tanaka's father was a businessman. After his death in 1902, the famil ...

.John (JB) Butler (1890 - 1976)
''Ask/Art: The Artists' Bluebook'' (subscription site). Accessed 2009-08-19. In 1909 the budding artist traveled with Butler to New York City for one year of art study at the National Academy of Design and then studied etching in Munich. His next three years were spent in Paris where he worked as a printmaker under the mentorship of Bertha Jaques. When the German troops were approaching the French capital in 1914, Roi returned to Seattle. When 44 of his etchings were shown at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915, he decided to make California his home. After moving to San Francisco in 1917, he began teaching at Mills College in Oakland, California in 1920 and became the first director of the school's art gallery. His marriage to photographer Imogen Cunningham in 1915 ended in divorce in 1934. They had three sons, including photographer

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. His second wife, artist Marion Lyman, died of cancer in 1940; his third wife was May Fisher. Partridge took a leave of absence from Mills College in 1946, continued etching until 1952, and retired in 1954. His last years were spent in Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, California, where he died on January 25, 1984.

Collections

The Amarillo Museum of Art (Amarillo, Texas), the

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(University of California), the British Museum, the

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, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, Washington), the Grinnell College Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Mills College, the

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(Mobile, Alabama), the Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, California), the

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, the Oakland Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, California), the Seattle Art Museum, the

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(Washington, D.C.), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and the Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota) are among the public collections holding works by Partridge. Roi Partridge - White Butterfly, etching, 1912.jpg, ''White Butterfly'', 1912 Modern etchings, mezzotints and dry-points (1913) (14589916939).jpg, ''Dancing Water'', 1913 Mills Hall, Roi Partridge, 1921.jpg, ''Mills Hall'', 1921 The Marvelous Mountain, Roi Partridge.jpg, ''The Marvelous Mountain'', ca. 1921

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External links

Roi Partridge Papers at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Mills College : Record of a Campus, by Roi Partridge, ca. 1940
at The Bancroft Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Partridge, Roi 20th-century American printmakers Mills College faculty Artists from Seattle Educators from Seattle 1888 births 1984 deaths People from Centralia, Washington