Description: WONDERFUL VINTAGE 1962 ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING OF A GUY DRAGGING A LITTLE BOAT INTO A BOATSHED, FRAMED, SIGNED BY THE LISTED ARTIST, CLAYTON RIPPEY! IN GREAT CONDITION! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! MARKED RIPPEY '62. MEASURING 22X30", 26X34" FRAME APPROX. WEIGHS 5 LB 10 OZ. SHIPPING INCLUDES GROUND ADVANTAGE, INSURANCE AND TRACKING. (DD110424J) CLAYTON RIPPEY 1923 - 2021 Prominent artist and Bakersfield College Professor Emeritus Clayton Rippey passed away on January 13, 2021 in Cedar City, Utah. Nearly 98, he died peacefully at his home with his family at his bedside. Planning to live to 100, he passed away the day before the opening of an exhibition featuring sixteen of his latest abstract paintings at the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) in Cedar City. Typical of his positive outlook and forward thinking, his new passport arrived on that day. Clayton was born in La Grande, Oregon in 1923. His parents, Harry and Inez Rippey, encouraged his interest in music and the visual arts while he grew up in La Grande. An accomplished clarinetist, he attended the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, Illinois. Midway through his second year there, the US entered WWII. He was drafted into the Army infantry and sent to Europe. While serving in France, Germany and Austria he earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. When not engaged in combat, Rippey did cartooning/portraiture and entertained the troops playing clarinet in swing bands. After the war, Clayton married his high school sweetheart, Marcia Sanford, and took art classes at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA while Marcia finished her nursing degree in 1947. They then moved to California where Clayton began studying cartooning/animation at Stanford University to prepare for job opportunities with NBC or Disney. But by 1949 he had completed his BA and was persuaded that his painting was more appropriate for a Stanford MA in Fine Art. The birth of their son John in 1949 helped motivate Clayton to accept a teaching position in Bakersfield, where daughter Barbara was born in 1951. Rippey began his career in Bakersfield teaching art classes at Bakersfield High School in the morning and at Bakersfield College in the afternoon, at their shared location. In 1956 Clayton moved with the college to the new Panorama Campus, serving as chairman of the art department and retiring from BC in 1980. During his tenure at BC the art department grew from two instructors to more than ten, and he helped establish the college's permanent art collection. Clayton designed and built the Renegade Knight, which has guarded the northwest corner of the BC campus since 1956. A retrospective show and reception honored Rippey and the iconic knight at BC in 2011. At that time he gave an abstract painting to the college which was his response to queries about how long he would continue working, titled "Until I can no longer walk or talk ." Although he has been honored with a great many awards over the years, one of his most treasured was the Bakersfield College Foundation's Distinguished Service Award, presented to him at a banquet on May 4, 1999. He was also recognized as one of BC's 100 Stars during the centennial celebrations of 2013. Clayton derived pleasure and artistic inspiration from his travel adventures. Before his retirement he used summer breaks and sabbatical leaves to study the people, cultures, landscapes and flavors of the world. In 1957 he took his family to Mexico for two months and in 1960 they traveled in Europe for a year. In 1967 he spent a year as a visiting professor helping establish the art department at Maui Community College in Hawaii. In 1975 he and Marcia spent six months traveling in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and China. After his retirement they traveled to Mexico, Costa Rica, Africa, China, Scandinavia, Alaska and throughout the western US and Canada. While in Bakersfield, Rippey created many large public commissioned pieces including two large murals for Valley Plaza Mall, and murals for KCL/Tenneco, Pepsi Cola, The Bakersfield Californian, and Martinizing Corporation. He also created the pirate-themed mosaic at Porterville College and other mosaic/murals at PC, PHS and Monache HS in Porterville. His 21-painting California "Mission Trail Suite" graced Mexicali West in Bakersfield for 40 years. While serving as a director and officer of the Bakersfield Art Association in the 1950s Clayton helped establish the Cunningham Art Gallery, now the Bakersfield Museum of Art, and served as its first director of exhibitions. He had three solo shows there from 1958 to 1968. The BAA presented him with its Daisy Urner Award in 1980. In 1967 Rippey began a friendship and professional association with Todd and Maris Madigan which lasted through 47 annual fall solo exhibitions at their Cezanne Gallery in Bakersfield. Working with the Madigans' Cezanne International, Rippey had solo and/or group exhibitions in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, throughout the western US and in New York. One of his bronze sculptures, inspired by the Stravinsky music for the ballet "The Firebird" was acquired by Dance Magazine in New York in 1977. In 1980 the Todd Madigan Art Gallery at CSUB was opened with a solo Rippey Retrospect of 16 paintings loaned by various private collectors. When Rippey retired from teaching in 1980 he and Marcia moved to Kapaa, Kauai, HI where they established the Sea Spirit Gallery featuring their 26 intarsia/mosaic "Legends of the World" series. In 1982 the collection was purchased for the World of Legends Museum in Los Altos, CA. The Rippeys then moved to what had been their summer retreat on Orcas Island, WA. There Rippey continued to produce and show in numerous solo, two-man (with former BC ceramics prof, Vic Bracke) and group exhibitions. His support of environmental issues was demonstrated by his work being chosen for the 1989 Arts for the Parks traveling exhibition, and for the "Images of Vanishing Nature" traveling exhibition of The Endangered Species Media Project in 1995. Rippey was remarkably versatile in all media and across all stylistic genres from abstract to microrealism. He was a prolific painter, muralist, mosaicist, ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and philosopher-poet. In addition to his 31 years of teaching, Clayton produced a body of art that has been represented in more than 125 solo exhibitions and even more group shows. The depth of his work is recognized in more than 1000 public, corporate and private collections throughout the nation and internationally. After 56 years together, Marcia passed away in 2002 in Anacortes, WA. Between 2008 and 2018, Clayton wintered in Las Vegas with his partner Elizabeth "Libby" Hedden. During the summer they painted in their Cedar City studio. After Libby passed away in 2018, Clayton took a year-long sojourn to Oregon before returning to Cedar City in 2020. Each year he would send a Christmas letter with a card print of one of his paintings. For December, 2020 he chose an old painting of two swans renamed "Peace and Love", and enclosed a short note ending with "a reiteration of the Duke Ellington greeting, 'Love You Madly'----- (signed) Rip". Expand the Memories and Condolen
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Artist: CLAYTON RIPPEY
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