Jack Dudley

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Artist: Jack Dudley, 1918-1996
Date: c. 1980
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 30 x 40"
Credit Line: Festival of Arts Purchase Award
Collection Number: FOAPAC # 2010.020

Artist Biography:

Jack Dudley lived and painted in Laguna Beach, California for thirty-eight years. He painted landscapes, architecture, people, and wildlife, in both oil, acrylic, and watercolor. He 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. Later he used modern, fast drying paint to accelerate the drying process. Dudley's studies included five years at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, instruction under modernist Lorser Feitelson and Barse Miller.