Description
This collection contains approximately
250 pieces of art, including working drawings and finished artwork from "Love and Death III"
series and "Canticle to the Waterbirds" by William Everson and individual prints. Also
included are samples of student works from Stolpe's Native Images workshops.
Background
Daniel Owen Stolpe was born in 1939 in Los Angeles, California. Stolpe attended the Los
Angeles County Art Institute (OTIS) until 1962, then apprenticed with artists Don La Viere
Turner and Joe Funk. Commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute in the late 1960s, he moved
to Washington, D.C. to illustrate extinct birds for their magazine and for the Atlantic
Monthly. In 1970, Stolpe moved to Santa Cruz, California, where he established Native Images
Studios with Joe Funk and taught printmaking at UC Santa Cruz. Stolpe produced work in a
variety of mediums, including monotypes, paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and
serigraphs. Stolpe passed away on December 12, 2018.
Restrictions
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs.
Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to
determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more
information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.