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John Ihle
Printmaking
American
(Chicago, Illinois, 1925 - 2003)
Below is a San Francisco Chronicle Obituary from January 1, 2003. Written as a Chronicle Staff Report. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Ihle-noted-Bay-Area-printmaker-artist-2718161.php
A memorial will be held Feb. 2 to celebrate the life of John Livingston Ihle, a prominent printmaker, artist and professor at San Francisco State University.
Professor Ihle died of heart failure on Nov. 28 in Mill Valley. He was 77.
Professor Ihle taught at San Francisco State for more than 30 years and influenced countless art students and art programs in the Bay Area. Many prestigious institutions have Professor Ihle's work, including the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery of Art and the New York Public Library.
"John Ihle was a disciplined artist with university training in art and a lifetime of awareness and concern for his artistic development," wrote his friend and colleague, SFSU art Professor Barbara Foster. "Ideas grew from an anthropological interest in the world. He had an insatiable desire to reflect on history. Western folklore and landscape was integral to his prints, creating an animated composite of fragments of the Western myth."
Professor Ihle was born in Chicago in 1925 and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. He studied at Illinois Wesleyan University before the war, then got his master's degree at Bradley University after the war. He also studied at the University of Iowa.
Shortly after moving to the Bay Area in the early 1950s, Professor Ihle was hired as an assistant professor of art at San Francisco State. There, he went on to found the metal arts and printmaking programs. He was a founding member of the Bay Printmakers Society and the California Society of Etchers (now the California Society of Printmakers).
Beginning in 1960, Professor Ihle had solo exhibitions at major venues, including the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He won awards and commissions from the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York's Society of American Graphic Artists and the Society of American Etchers.
Professor Ihle was a notable presence at SFSU, as well. Sylvia Walters, chair of the SFSU art department, said having him on the faculty was one of the reasons she took the job in 1984.
"I was thrilled to have a working relationship with him," she said.
He retired from the university in 1985 and was made professor emeritus.
A celebration of Professor Ihle's life will be held Feb. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. , in the gallery of the Kala Art Institute, 1060 Heinz St., Berkeley.
He is survived by his wife, Maggie; a son, Lars Eric; a daughter, Jean Ihle Horrell; and five grandchildren.
Donations may be made to the charity of choice, or to the Printmaking Scholarship, San Francisco State University, Art Department, 1600 Holloway Ave. , San Francisco CA 94132, or the Kala Art Institute, 1060 Heinz St., Berkeley CA 94710.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Ihle-noted-Bay-Area-printmaker-artist-2718161.php#ixzz2I49zLn6M
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Printmaking
American
(Chicago, Illinois, 1925 - 2003)
Below is a San Francisco Chronicle Obituary from January 1, 2003. Written as a Chronicle Staff Report. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Ihle-noted-Bay-Area-printmaker-artist-2718161.php
A memorial will be held Feb. 2 to celebrate the life of John Livingston Ihle, a prominent printmaker, artist and professor at San Francisco State University.
Professor Ihle died of heart failure on Nov. 28 in Mill Valley. He was 77.
Professor Ihle taught at San Francisco State for more than 30 years and influenced countless art students and art programs in the Bay Area. Many prestigious institutions have Professor Ihle's work, including the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery of Art and the New York Public Library.
"John Ihle was a disciplined artist with university training in art and a lifetime of awareness and concern for his artistic development," wrote his friend and colleague, SFSU art Professor Barbara Foster. "Ideas grew from an anthropological interest in the world. He had an insatiable desire to reflect on history. Western folklore and landscape was integral to his prints, creating an animated composite of fragments of the Western myth."
Professor Ihle was born in Chicago in 1925 and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. He studied at Illinois Wesleyan University before the war, then got his master's degree at Bradley University after the war. He also studied at the University of Iowa.
Shortly after moving to the Bay Area in the early 1950s, Professor Ihle was hired as an assistant professor of art at San Francisco State. There, he went on to found the metal arts and printmaking programs. He was a founding member of the Bay Printmakers Society and the California Society of Etchers (now the California Society of Printmakers).
Beginning in 1960, Professor Ihle had solo exhibitions at major venues, including the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He won awards and commissions from the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York's Society of American Graphic Artists and the Society of American Etchers.
Professor Ihle was a notable presence at SFSU, as well. Sylvia Walters, chair of the SFSU art department, said having him on the faculty was one of the reasons she took the job in 1984.
"I was thrilled to have a working relationship with him," she said.
He retired from the university in 1985 and was made professor emeritus.
A celebration of Professor Ihle's life will be held Feb. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. , in the gallery of the Kala Art Institute, 1060 Heinz St., Berkeley.
He is survived by his wife, Maggie; a son, Lars Eric; a daughter, Jean Ihle Horrell; and five grandchildren.
Donations may be made to the charity of choice, or to the Printmaking Scholarship, San Francisco State University, Art Department, 1600 Holloway Ave. , San Francisco CA 94132, or the Kala Art Institute, 1060 Heinz St., Berkeley CA 94710.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Ihle-noted-Bay-Area-printmaker-artist-2718161.php#ixzz2I49zLn6M
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Biography
John Ihle, Professor Emeritus from San Francisco State University, is a nationally recognized printmaker. He was the recipient of the California Society of Printmakers’ 1998 Distinguished Artist Award and currently teaches a full range of workshops at the Kala Printmaking Institute in Berkeley. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and SFMOMA. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2001)Your current search criteria is: Artist is "John Ihle".