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ARTISTS OF THE HOLLYWOOD ART CENTER SCHOOL

 

The Hollywood Art Center School throughout its' history, had nationally and internationally known faculty teaching at the school, along with distinct educational pedigrees and professional experience. Please see the list of artists below, but please note that this is a work in progress. 

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ARTIST LIST

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Lovins Family (Founders)

  • Henry Lovins - Founder/Director, Painting, Drawing, Interior Design, Art History, Writer, Musician, Muralist

  • Mona Lue Lovins - Sculpture, Decorative Design, Costume Design, Saturday Morning Children Classes, Block Printing, Textile Design

  • Jay Lovins - Filmmaker, Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Film Distributor, Teacher, Musician

 

HACS Artists

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  • Estelle Ishigo

  • Dorothy Skylar

  • Charles Keck - Watercolor, Veterans Art Program 

  • Ferdinand Penny Earle - Painter, Writer, Filmmaker, Publisher and Collaborator of Henry Lovins. Founder/Editor of Westwind magazine. Father of Disney's most prolific animator, Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp etc.,)

  • Edward Langley - Noteworthy Art Director of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. known for The Mask of Zorro, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers to name a few. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486516/

  • Millard Sheets

  • David Edstrom

  • Henry Lion - Sculpture

  • Jean Mannheim - Painting

  • Flavio Cabral - Oil Painting

  • Charles Kyson (Kysor) - Architecture

  • Eugene Bard - Industrial Design

  • Dorothy Briscoe - Fashion Design

  • Israel Fogel - Lettering

  • William Wolfson - Advanced Art

  • John Hubbard Rich - Portrait Painter

  • Peter Krasnow

  • Ted Bonniekse

  • Stan Sinnett - Advertising/Illustration

  • Glen Yost

  • Val Costello

  • Lorenzo C. Miller

  • Michael Baros

  • Billy Hon

  • Hilaire Hiler

  • Ann Johnson - Costume Design

  • Frederick Hoover - Interior Design

  • John Dalziel - Decorative Design

  • Umberto Pedretti - Architectural Sculpture

  • Edgardo Simone - Sculpture

  • Nina Saemundsson - Sculpture

  • Roger Noble Burnham - Sculpture

  • Gordon Newell - Sculpture and Wood Carving

  • Alexander Warshawsky - Portrait Painting

  • Leonard Arthur Wheeler - Industrial Design, Packaging, Advertising Layouts.

  • Viola French - Commercial Art, Illustration, Poster Design

  • Roald Vestbie - Interior Decoration; Decor modern as done in Paris and New York. Period styles. Appreciation of Interior Architecture

  • Rose Gilbert - Artist's pigments and their proper uses in painting 

  • Walter Foster

  • Ralph Smiley

  • Barbara Wirth - Animation Graduate and Faculty, who went on to animate at Walt Disney. 

  • Dick Shaw -- HACS Faculty, 1949 and Disney Animator

  • Tom Bonnicksen -- HACS Faculty, 1949 and Disney Animator

  • Kathy Metz -- HACS Graduate and Painting and Drawing Faculty, 1970s-2000. 

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Students and Faculty worked with all the major studios such as: 

 

    MGM

    Paramount

    Universal 

    Warner Brothers

    Disney

    Carl Laemmle

    Jack Warner 

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