Harry Stuart Fonda | |
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| Born | (1864-08-24)August 24, 1864 Marysville, California, U.S. |
| Died | August 9, 1942(1942-08-09) (aged 77) Carthage, New York, U.S. |
| Education | California School of Design,Académie Julian |
| Known for | Painting |
Harry Stuart Fonda (August 24, 1864–August 9, 1942) was an American painter, musician, and professor, best known for his marine and landscape paintings.
Fonda was born August 24, 1864, inMarysville, California.[1] He was born in a family of six children, to parents Eleanor (née Middleton) and William Thomas Fonda.[1] From 1883–1885 he studied atCalifornia School of Design (now known as San Francisco Art Institute) withVirgil Macey Williams. From 1893–96, he studied atAcadémie Julian withJean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant andJean-Paul Laurens.[1]
While still living in Paris on February 9, 1896, he married singer May Elizabeth MacLeod. Together with his new wife they moved to California sometimes in late 1896, eventually settling in to a home and studio at 3011 Sacramento Street in San Francisco.[1][2] Fonda was a member of theBohemian Club, joining on November 18, 1896.[3] He sometimes taught private classes from his studio.[2] Frequently in summers he would teach art classes inMonterey, California.[4]
From 1897 until 1899, he was an instructor at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute).[1] Other artists working at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art during this time period includedThomas Hill,Ernest Narjot,Emil Carlsen,Amedee Joullin,Raymond Dabb Yelland, andDouglas Tilden.[4][5] Fonda's students includedPedro Joseph de Lemos, amongst others. His oil painting,House of the Four Winds, was bought by PresidentWilliam McKinley.[2]
After the1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fonda moved to Monterey, California and taught art in the public schools for one year.[1] Fonda was a musician, a piano player and piano teacher, and he wrote a comicoperetta calledPrince Toggerty (1910) and starred Josephine Bruguière (mother of artistFrancis Bruguière).[6][7]
His wife May died in San Francisco in 1929.[8] In 1940, he moved toCarthage, New York, to live with his daughter Louise "Elsie" LeRoy Martin, and his son-in-law.[9] He died on August 9, 1942, in Carthage.[9]
