Creator Record

Metadata

Name (Artist/Photographer/Author)

Gleason, Joe Duncan

Role

Artist

Dates of birth and death

Artist's Nationality Dates: American/1881-1959

Places of residence

Joe Duncan Gleason was a native of California.

Occupation

He was known for his landscape and marine paintings of San Pedro Harbor on the California coast. He also wrote and illustrated several books on California maritime history and worked for the scenic art department at Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Warner Brothers studios.

Education

Gleason was raised in Los Angeles, California and was working for the Union Engraving Company when he was only fourteen years old. He was skilled at drawing and sketching and took his first art training at the University of Southern California as a pupil of Lees Judson. Gleason then moved north to San Francisco to attend the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. While going to school, he worked for the Sunset Engraving Company as a commercial artist. He studied in Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago and from 1900 to 1901, took lessons from Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City. In New York he supported himself as a commercial artist including illustrating for the Ladies' Home Journal. He stayed in New York for ten years before returning to Los Angeles in 1910. He was skilled at drawing and sketching and took his first art training at the University of Southern California as a pupil of Lees Judson. Gleason then moved north to San Francisco to attend the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. He studied in Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago and from 1900 to 1901, took lessons from Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City.

Titles & Honors

He exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1924), the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (1945) and the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939).