Notes for Shirley Ximena HOPPER: Shirley was born at Clifton, which is now Del Rey in Fresno, CA. She married Lawrence Russell. He was a graduate of Stanford University in Engineering. He name of Ximena was taken from Whittier's poem "The Angels of Buena Vista" like her brother Bernal. She graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford University, specializing in Foreign Languages and Art. She perform post-graduate work at Stanford, and graduated from the San Jose Normal School. Most of her advanced study in Art was done in the Paris Studio (First under Delecluse) during the following years: 1927-28, 1937-38, 1954-55, and 1958-59.
Andre Lhote (A Cubist and follower of Picasso) was a strong influence in her later studies. Other influences in America were MacCoy, Umberto Romano, Warsaw, Serisawa and Hans Hoffman. MacCoy led in the direction of Sesanne, and Romano (a vital teacher) was more in the direction of Raualt. In Los Angles, she worked with Rico Le Brun, who was noted nationally as a very inspiring teacher. Hans Hoffman influence was in contemporary American art. Both Hoffman and Lhote were considered the world's greatest teachers in their time, who opened up great vistas to their students. She also took courses at the University of Hawaii, Jepson School of Art in Los Angles, CA, Serigraphs and Watercolor with Sister Corita and Mary in Hollywood. Other teachers influencing her works were Biloul, Fries, Morrissy, Lionel Walden, Millard Sheets, and Norman Ives.
After the death of her husband in 1912, she taught in CA high schools. She toured Honolulu in 1921 with her son, later returning to make Hawaii her new home. From 1923-1946 she was a member of the Faculty of McKinley High School in Honolulu. Many of her students have now become outstanding artists. She taught two summer sessions at the University of Hawaii's Art Department and at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She also taught private classes. Her interests also include music and dramatics. She played the violin with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, and assisted in producing operettas in Honolulu and California. She traveled extensively throughout Europe, and around the world (including seeing the Japanese bomb Shanghai) through the Asian countries. Her travels took her to Mexico, Scandinavia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Scotland (where she gathered information for the Hopper genealogy), Trinidad, Panama and other countries. She is the author of Russell-Nottage genealogy.
Shirley is best known for flower paintings, marines, collections of doll paintings, and for many portraits. She has been in numerous group shows in San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Paris, Palo Alto and New York (including galleries, festivals, clubs, shows, and exhibits). Her personal shows have included the Honolulu Academy of Arts, numerous Honolulu Galleries, S. & G. Gump's of Honolulu, Gima's Gallery, and Nickerson's Gallery. Her works have been included in collections at the Moana, Royal Hawaiian and Halekulani Hotels in Honolulu, Tripler Hospital, Matson Navigation Co., the Officers Club at Pearl Harbor, Laurance Rockefeller, Vincent Price, Tennant Foundation, Paul Truesdale, Castle & Cooke Inc., T. Twig-Smith, publisher Pear, Marwick & Mitchell Co. of Honolulu, C. Brewer & Co., and Suite for President Roosevelt at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1930.
She has given many lectures to art groups, art teachers, Artist Guilds, and has served on many juries for art exhibitions. Her memberships include the Association of Honolulu Artists, Hawaii Painters & Sculptors League, Outrigger Canoe Club, Outdoor Circle, Alliance Franchise, National Society of Literature and the Arts, Honolulu Printmakers, National League of American Penwomen, and Women's Symphony Group. Her biography appears in the International Blue Book of 1939, Who's Who in the West 1970, Dictionary of International Biography 1971, Artists of Hawaii 1974 (19 Represented), and Saga of the Sandwich Islands. Her awards include the 4th Annual Show, 5th Annual, Landscape in Oil, Still Life (all at Honolulu Academy of Arts), Museum of Fine Arts, L.A., Prints, Honolulu Festival, Ala Moana (Hawaii) Spring Show. She is the author of the Hopper Genealogy book that traces the lines of the Hoppers through Major Samuel Duff Hopper, grandson of Robert Hopper and Jane Duff of Ireland and Scotland.
More About Shirley Ximena HOPPER and Lawrence Greenleaf RUSSELL: Marriage: June 09, 1909
Children of Shirley Ximena HOPPER and Lawrence Greenleaf RUSSELL are:
Shirley Ximena HOPPER (b. May 16, 1886, d. date unknown)
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