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Stirling Dickinson was born on 1909 in Chicago, United States, is an American painter. Discover Stirling Dickinson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Occupation Art teacher
Age 89 years old
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Born 1909, 1909
Birthday 1909
Birthplace Chicago, United States
Date of death 27 October, 1998
Died Place San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Nationality United States

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1837

Dickinson's grandfather William Dickinson was born on a New Hampshire farm in 1837, moved to Chicago, and after joining the firm of Hugh McLennan & Co. became a millionaire trader in the Chicago grain futures market.

1880

Willam Stirling Dickinson was the son of Francis Reynolds Dickinson (1880-1974) and Alice May Stirling (1884-1952).

1903

His father, a Chicago lawyer, was a 1903 graduate of Harvard, where he was an editor of the Crimson and a member of Signet.

Both were painfully shy, a trait that Stirling inherited.

1909

Stirling Dickinson was born in Chicago in 1909, and studied at the Berkshire School and then at Princeton University graduating in 1931.

He attended the Art Institute of Chicago for post-graduate studies, and as a graduate student went to the Écoles d'Art Américaines in the Palace of Fontainebleau in France.

However, he accepted that his talent would never place him in the top rank of artists.

1934

In 1934 he and Heath Bowman, whom he had met at Princeton, made a six-month tour of Mexico in a green 1929 Ford Model A convertible.

Bowman described their experiences in the light-hearted book Mexican Odyssey, which Dickinson illustrated.

The book sold well.

They wrote a second book on South America.

Westward from Rio records their extremely difficult journey from Rio de Janeiro west to the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

The two men then decided to write a novel based in Mexico, choosing to live in San Miguel while writing Death is Incidental,

and first building a house that they called "Los Pocitos" in part of the ruins of an old tannery.

The property cost just $90.

After the book was published, Bowman married and moved away, and Dickinson bought his share of the house.

He remained there, a bachelor, living very simply despite having inherited considerable wealth.

1938

In 1938 Dickinson was appointed director of the Escuela Universitaria de Bellas Artes in San Miguel.

Dickinson actively promoted the new school, visiting universities and cultural centers and handing out flyers in several U.S, cities.

The school mostly targeted foreign students and wealthy Mexicans,

but also offered low-cost workshops for local students,

teaching traditional weaving and pottery techniques and thus helping to preserve their cultural traditions.

1942

During World War II, Dickinson served in Naval Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and Italy between 1942 and 1945.

1945

When World War II ended in 1945, the G.I. Bill funded free education for veterans.

Many took the opportunity to study art in San Miguel, where the cost of living was very low.

The school hired the muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a lecturer, a prominent communist.

He had a dispute with the school's owner, Alfredo Campanella, over funding.

Most of the students supported Siqueiros, and in the end most of them walked out.

1949

The school was forced to close in 1949.

Dickinson launched his own school, but without accreditation from the U.S. Embassy had difficulty attracting students.

1950

On 12 August 1950 Dickinson was deported along with five other American teachers and the Canadian couple Leonard and Reva Brooks.

The official reason was that they did not have proper work visas.

It was said that Campanella had bribed officials to deport the teachers in revenge for the closure of his school.

An article in the New York Times said the reason was that they had opposed U.S. involvement in the Korean War.

Leonard Brooks was eventually able to get the deportation order lifted through his contact with General Ignacio M. Beteta, whose brother Ramón Beteta Quintana was an influential politician at the national level.

On Dickinson's return to San Miguel, he became art director of the newly opened Instituto Allende.

1957

On 29 August 1957 the New York Herald Tribune ran an article titled More than 100 Expatriate Reds in Mexico Viewed as Peril to US.

It said: "Two of Mexico's most picturesque communities - Cuernavaca and San Miguel de Allende - have become the headquarters of some of America's richest and most active communists. The real leaders of the group, Embassy sources say, are [Albert] Maltz, [Maurice] Halperin, and a so-called 'Mystery Man' named William Sterling Dickinson...".

Time magazine ran a version of the story titled "Red Haven" in which it said that Dickinson "keeps open house for communists and fellow travellers."

1998

Stirling Dickinson (1909 – October 27, 1998) was an American artist who spent much of his life in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato in Mexico, where he was one of the first members of what would become a colony of expatriate artists from the United States and Canada.