American Monotypes from the Baker/Pisano Collection | Page 62

John A. Stanton (American, 1857–1929)

Western Landscape with Seated Indian, ca. 1910
Color monotype, 6 13/16 x 11 11/16 in.
Chazen Museum of Art, gift of D. Frederick Baker from the
Baker/Pisano Collection, 2014.6.21

John A. Stanton was a California-based artist, and his work is
associated with California plein air painting, a regional variation on American Impressionism. He studied at the San
Francisco Art Institute (formerly the Mark Hopkins School of
Design) and spent five years in Paris studying with Jean-Paul
Laurens and Georges Callot. He later taught at the Mark
Hopkins School of Design where he remained for twenty-six
years. Stanton did etchings, but only turned to monotypes later
in his career. In her book Singular Impressions: The Monotype in
America, Joann Moser wrote: “Although John Aloysius Stanton
began making monotypes late in his career as an aid to painting, he became intrigued by the medium and experimented
with printing images on the back of absorbent wallpaper,
probably to achieve an even softer, more diffuse sense of light.”*
NOTES:
Annex Galleries, Fifty Years of California Prints, Second Annual
Exhibition, unpaginated.
*Moser, Singular Impressions, 104.

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