Nationality American Known for "sun paintings" | Alma mater Cory School | |
Full Name Pansy Cornelia Repass Born March 31, 1895 ( 1895-03-31 ) El Dorado Springs, MO Spouse(s) Roscoe K. Stockton
Howard W. Fatheree Died 20 February 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States | ||
Pansy Cornelia Stockton (1895–1972) was an American artist born in El Dorado Springs, Missouri and raised in Colorado where her parents ran a resort hotel. Stockton was known for "sun paintings and landscapes using bark, moss, leaves and other flora" in her work.Over the course of her career "Stockton used fragments of hundreds of varieties of vegetations as mediums in her work. These elements included ferns, bark, weeds, leaves, and twigs, and some of her pictures had as many as 10,000 components, and during her career she worked with 250 kinds of vegetation from all over the world. On the backs of some of these assemblages, she listed the items and where she found them." She made her first sun painting in 1916 when she was living in Durango, CO.
In 1936 Stockton was formally adopted by the Ogallala Sioux for interceding on their behalf to help preserve their land and rights. She settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1942 and died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1972. During her lifetime she had numerous solo exhibitions, particularly at the New Mexico Museum of Art. She gained notoriety for appearing on the popular television show This Is Your Life in 1953 and was the subject of five Hollywood film shorts. Her work is in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the Stark Museum of Art.