Ernest batchelder biography
Ernest batchelder biography
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Ernest A. Batchelder
American artist and educator
Ernest Allan Batchelder (January 22, 1875 – August 6, 1957) was an American artist and educator who made Southern California his home in the early 20th century.
He created art tiles and was a leader in the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
Early life
Ernest Allan Batchelder was born on January 22, 1875, in Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.[1][2][3] In 1894, Batchelder began attending classes at Massachusetts Normal Art School (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design), which was founded in 1873 with the intention to support the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870 by providing drawing teachers for the public schools as well as training professional artists, designers, and architects.
In 1899 he received his Public School Class diploma.[4] Batchelder came to Pasadena, California, in the early 1900s to teach, and became director of the art department at Throop Poly