July 21, 1960, in Santa Barbara, at age 80. His wife Mabel donated one of his paintings to the Smithsonian American Art Museum posthumously. More than a hundred of Hinkle's paintings were left by his estate to the University of Pacific, which were sold in 1986 to a single collector in Santa Barbara. His work was acquired by the San Diego Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2012, more than 114 of his paintings were exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum. Exhibitions This is a select list of notable exhibitions that featured Hinkle. Solo exhibitions 1960 – Clarence Hinkle: 1880-1960, solo exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 2012 – Clarence Hinkle, solo exhibition at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Group exhibitions 1922 – group exhibition with Hinkle, Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, Howard Russell Butler, Jean Mannheim, Henri De Kruif, John Hubbard Rich, John Wesley Cotton, Howell Chambers Brown, Nellie Huntington Gere, at the MacDowell Club, Tajo Building, Los Angeles, California 1933–1934 – Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities, group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York 1962 – Clarence Hinkle and William Rohrbach, group exhibition, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2004 – Laguna Beach: Our Town in the Early 1900s, group exhibition with Hinkle, William Wendt, Joseph Kleitsch, Edgar Alwin Payne, Anna Althea Hills, at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2012 – Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight, group exhibition with Hinkle, Mabel Alvarez, Henri de Kruif, John Hubbard Rich, Donna N. Schuster, E. Roscoe Shrader, Edouard Vysekal, Luvena Buchanan Vysekal, at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Further reading References External links 1880 births 1960 deaths People from Auburn, California People from Laguna Beach, California People from Santa Barbara, California San Francisco Art Institute alumni Art Students League of New York alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Académie Julian alumni American portrait painters American still life painters Painters from California 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters