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Jack Dudley lived and painted in Laguna Beach, California, for thirty-eight years.
He painted landscapes, architecture, people, and wildlife, in both oil and watercolor,
and developed a "broken color" technique of oil painting involving the use of brilliant
bits of pure color visible throughout the tonal patterns of his work.
Dudley’s studies included five years at the Art Center School in Los Angeles,
instruction under modernist Lorser Feitelson, and instruction under Barse Miller of
the American Scene Movement in Southern California.
Serving overseas in World War II, Dudley produced voluminous artistic chronicles
of Indochina. In the late forties and early fifties he worked as a commercial artist
with Los Angeles advertising firms. Subsequently, he spent a number of years
in the field of architectural rendering, and, in the mid-sixties, finally established
himself as a fine artist.
Dudley was long represented by The Esther Wells Collection in Laguna Beach,
California, as well as other galleries throughout the Southwest. His work was also
represented at O’Brien’s Art Emporium in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Desert Southwest
Gallery in Palm Desert, California.
He was a Lifetime Member of the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, where he
exhibited for over three decades, and a National Watercolor Society Signature
Member. Jack Dudley died of cancer in 1996, shortly after receiving the Grand
Canyon Purchase Award for his painting View from the North Rim at the annual
Arts for the Parks competition.
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View from the North Rim – Jack Dudley
$7,500 Grand Canyon Purchase Award
Arts for the Parks competition, 1996
For Kolb Studio Permanent Collection
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