Orrin Augustine White
Born1883
Hanover, Illinois, U.S.
Died1969
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame
OccupationPainter

Orrin Augustine White (1883 - 1969) was an American painter. His studio was in Pasadena, California.

Life

White was born in 1883 in Hanover, Illinois.[1] He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1902.[1][2] He was an assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Portland in Oregon.[1]

White began his artistic career as a textile designer until he became an interior designer in Los Angeles in 1906, and he took up painting in 1912.[1] Two of his paintings were exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.[2] He served in World War I, and he later opened a studio in Pasadena.[2] He was on the advisory council of the South Pasadena chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters.[3]

White gave private lessons in landscape painting to California artist Ben Abril.[4]

White died in 1969.[1] His work was exhibited by the South Pasadena chapter of the NSAL shortly after his death, and they set up the Orrin White Scholarship Fund in his memory.[3] One of his paintings in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Ungermann-Marshall, Yana (2008). Flintridge. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 9780738555850. OCLC 177000610.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Orrin Augustine White". LACMA. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Society of Arts & Letters Plan Tea on May 13 at Exhibit". South Pasadena Review. May 12, 1969. p. 5. Retrieved July 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Ben Abril: About this artist". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved May 13, 2023.


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