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Constance Jenkins Macky (née Constance Lillian Jenkins; 1883–1961) was an Australian-born American artist and teacher. She was known for her portraits, landscape paintings, and still life paintings.

Biography

Constance Lillian Jenkins was born June 29, 1883, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Her parents were Emma Wright and John S. Jenkins, her father was of Scottish descent. She was the youngest of six children, and began to study art seriously at age 15. Macky attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School (formally National Gallery School of Painting), from 1900 to 1908 and then studied at the Académie Julian in Paris during 1909.

In 1912, Jenkins married Eric Spencer Macky in Berkeley, California. They had two sons, including Donald Spencer Macky (1913–2007) who was also an artist. In 1915, the Macky's both participated in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, creating decorative panels for the Australian and New Zealand Buildings.

Constance Jenkins Macky and her spouse founded the Spencer Macky Art School in San Francisco in 1916. The first location of the school was at Post Street, near Gough Street in a building that housed many other notable artists including Leo Lentelli, Clark Hobart, William Claussen, Louise Mahoney, Florence Lundberg, Sigmund Beel, and George Hyde. The school was popular and moved to a larger space at the "Artists Building" at 535 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. By 1917, the Spencer Macky Art School was merged with the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA; now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). After the merge she continued to teach classes at CSFA.

She was a member of the San Francisco Art Association, and the California Society of Women Artists.

Death and legacy

Macky died on November 17, 1961, in San Francisco. She is buried in the Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito, California. Macky's work is included in public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Library of Australia, and others.

References

1. ^ "Constance Lillian Jenkins". Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
2. ^ Hughes, Edan Milton (1986). Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-9616112-0-0.
3. ^ Hailey, Gene; Schwartz, Ellen Halteman, eds. (1937). California Art Research (PDF). Series 1, W.P.A. Project 2874. Vol. 15. San Francisco, California (published 1987). pp. 99–118. ISBN 0-910938-88-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "Donald Macky". Napa Valley Register. 15 December 2007. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
5. "Constance L. Jenkins". NGV. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015.
6. "Jenkins, Constance Lillian (1883-1961)". Trove, National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

External links

• Reminiscences of Eric Spencer and Constance Macky: oral history transcript / Eric S. Macky; tape recorded interview conducted in 1954. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1957: and related material, 1954-1957.

• 1883 births
• 1961 deaths
• 20th-century American women artists
• 20th-century Australian women artists
• Artists from Melbourne
• San Francisco Art Institute faculty
• Académie Julian alumni
• Artists from San Francisco
• Australian people of Scottish descent
• Australian emigrants to the United States
• National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni