Lorna Mills/Great American Bank Donation
FOAPAC # 1990.039
Clarence Hinkle was born in Auburn, California in 1880 and grew up on a ranch outside Sacramento. He studied at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, Art Students League in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Academe Colarossi and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he was greatly Influenced by Impressionism. He returned to the U.S. in 1912, spending 5 years living and exhibiting his works in San Francisco before moving to Southern California to teach at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design and the Chouinard Institute. Hinkle remained active as a painter and teacher in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara where he died in 1960.