Prescott 3 Painting

I am a former film editor who worked in Hollywood with the late Hal Ashby and Dennis Hopper and on the television shows, St. Elsewhere, Bay City Blues, and Mork and Mindy. I used my editing rooms as exhibition spaces during the final phases of my work in Hollywood. As a painter, I was trained and influenced by three people in my life: my late grandmother, Jeannette Demarest Caldwell, who studied at the Art Students league in NYC and the Art Center College in Pasadena, the Studio of Tina LeMarque Denison and with Franklin Liegel in the Advanced Painting Workshops at Otis Art Institute. I began drawing and painting at 3 and participating in community art exhibits at 10 in Manhattan Beach, California. My last exhibit was in NYC about 10 years ago. I have always had my studio within my home, as my grandparents did in their home in Downtown Los Angeles. My grandfather, John C. Caldwell, was a special effects cinematographer in Hollywood motion pictures, and won an Emmy for Special Effects for City Beneath the Sea. He was influenced by Frank Capra, who he worked with on the Why We Fight series during World War II in the Army Signal Corps. My grandfather made and distributed documentaries from his home film studio. My grandmother had numerous exhibitions in a La Cienega coop gallery in Los Angeles in the 1950's and 1960's. I used to help her once a week during her turn to staff the gallery.