Herbert Jepson (June 6, 1908 – July 2, 1993) was an American artist and designer. He founded the
Jepson Art Institute Jepson Art Institute, founded in 1945 by artist Herbert Jepson, was an art school located at 2861 West 7th Street in the Westlake district of central Los Angeles, California.
It flourished from 1947 to 1953 — becoming an important center for ...
in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
in 1945; among his students were
Larry Bell and
Joe Goode
Joe Goode (born 1937) is an American artist who attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1959–1961. Originally born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Goode made a name for himself in Los Angeles through his cloud imagery and milk bot ...
. He was the father of poet
Elena Karina Byrne
Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor. Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in ''The Best American Poetry 2005'' and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which ...
.
External links
Herbert Jepson: Images and BiographyInterview of Herbert Jepson
part o
Los Angeles Art Community - Group Portrait
Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Herbert Jepson's obituary
American artists
1908 births
1993 deaths
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