Langson IMCA is temporarily closed through June 10, 2022 due to an Airport Tower renovation project.
We look forward to welcoming visitors back on June 11, 2022 with the opening of the summer exhibition, Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century.

pencil drawing of a rocky hillside with trees below
Jan Stussy, Landscape, 1959, Graphite on paper, 29 x 22 in. UC Irvine Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of Maxine Stussy Frankel

Landscape

Jan Stussy

Landscape (1959)
Gifted by Maxine Stussy Frankel

Jan Stussy (1921 – 1990)
Artist, film producer, and arts educator Jan Stussy took an eclectic, figurative approach to his work that went against the grain of Abstract Expressionism, the dominant style of the post-war period. His idiosyncratic paintings and drawings of contorted figures bring together cubist, surrealist, and expressionist characteristics. Landscape, a graphite work on paper, illustrates the importance of Chinese and Japanese art for Stussy, an interest passed down to him from his mentor, Stanton Macdonald-Wright. It demonstrates Stussy’s commitment to draftsmanship, something he espoused as an educator as a core element of an arts curriculum.

Year acquired: 2021