John Stockton de Martelly (1903–1979) was a twentieth-century American lithographer, etcher, painter, illustrator, teacher and writer.
[2] In the 1930s and 1940s, he taught printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute to the same students who studied painting with Thomas Hart Benton.
De Martelly became a close friend of Benton, and was influenced by his Regionalist style.
In 1943, de Martelly began teaching at Michigan State University in East Lansing, where he was named artist-in-residence in 1946.
[6][7][8] By the late 1940s, de Martelly abandoned Regionalism for Abstract Expressionism and closely studied Daumier.