Pansy Stockton

{{Short description|American artist}}

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| birth_name = Pansy Cornelia Repass

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|03|31}}

| birth_place = El Dorado Springs, Missouri

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|02|20|1895|03|31}}

| death_place = Colorado Springs, Colorado

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| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = Cory School

| known_for = "sun paintings"

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• Roscoe K. Stockton
• Howard W. Fatheree

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Pansy Cornelia Stockton (1895–1972) was an American artist born in El Dorado Springs, Missouri. At age six, she traveled by late model covered wagon to Colorado, moving around with her family from La Junta to Durango to Silverton to Fruita and finally to Eldorado Springs, Colorado where her parents ran a resort hotel.{{cite web|url=http://www.davidcookgalleries.com/artist/pansy-stockton|title=Pansy Cornelia Stockton – David Cook Galleries|publisher=|accessdate=7 March 2016}} Stockton was known for "sun paintings and landscapes using bark, moss, leaves and other flora" in her work.Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., “North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary” Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995 Over the course of her career "Stockton used fragments of hundreds of varieties of vegetations as mediums in her work. These elements included ferns, bark, weeds, leaves, and twigs, and some of her pictures had as many as 1,000 components, and during her career she worked with 250 kinds of vegetation from all over the world. On the backs of some of these assemblages, she listed the items and where she found them."{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Pansy_Cornelia_Stockton/113295/Pansy_Cornelia_Stockton.aspx|title=Pansy Stockton|publisher=|accessdate=7 March 2016}} She made her first sun painting in 1916 when she was living in Durango, Colorado.{{cite book|last1=Dawdy|first1=Doris Ostrander|title=Artists of the American West : A Biographical Dictionary|date=1981|publisher=Swallow Press|location=Chicago|isbn=0804003521|page=[https://archive.org/details/artistsofamerica02dori/page/283 283]|url=https://archive.org/details/artistsofamerica02dori/page/283}} Pansy was one of the 52 original founding members of the Denver Artists Guild in 1928, later renamed the Colorado Artists Guild in 1990.

In 1936 Stockton was formally adopted by the Ogallala Sioux for interceding on their behalf to help preserve their land and rights.{{cite web|title=This Is Your Life: Pansy Stockton Show Notes|url=http://www.thisisyourlife.com/search.html|publisher=Ralph Edwards Productions|accessdate=25 March 2016}} She had become known as "Poncita" and her father was Chief Dan Flies (also known as Buffalo Bill's compatriot).{{Cite book|title=The Denver Artists Guild : its founding members : an illustrated history|last=Stan|first=Cuba|isbn=978-0942576597|location=Denver, CO|oclc=918968336|date = 2015-05-15}} She settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1942 and died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1972. During her lifetime she had numerous solo exhibitions, particularly at the New Mexico Museum of Art. She gained notoriety for appearing on the popular television show This Is Your Life in 1953 and was the subject of five Hollywood film shorts.{{cite book|last1=Kovinick|first1=Phil|last2=Yoshiki-Kovinick|first2=Marian|title=An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West|date=1998|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|isbn=0292790635|page=293}} Her work is in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the Stark Museum of Art, as well as her close family's homes.