He was a professor emeritus from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he taught there for 42 years.
[1] Stussy had studied lithography with Lynton Richards Kistler and Joe Funk,[6] and painting and drawing at USC with Francis de Erdely, and Stanton Macdonald-Wright.
[5][6] Stussy was married to artist Maxine Kim (née Carlyle) in 1949, they met while working as teaching assistants at UCLA.
The film portrays one of Stussy's art students, Mark Hicks, who has been paralyzed since a childhood accident and paints and draws by holding tools between his teeth.
[9] He died on July 31, 1990, in Brentwood, West Los Angeles of a brain tumor.