Eric Spencer Macky

Eric Spencer Macky, also known simply as Spencer Macky (1880–1958) was a New Zealand-born American painter, intaglio printmaker, academic administrator, and educator. He was president of the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts), from 1944 until 1954. He also founded the Spencer Macky Art School in San Francisco, from 1916 until 1917. He was also known for his landscape paintings and scenes of San Francisco. near Auckland, New Zealand. He was interested in art at a young age and by age 14, he was attending the Elam Art School on a scholarship and studied under C. F. Goldie. George Post, and John Melville Kelly.

In 1944, Spencer Macky was appointed President of California College of Arts and Crafts when the college's founder Frederick Meyer retired. Macky held this position for a decade, until 1954.

In 1916, Spencer Macky and his spouse Constance founded the Spencer Macky Art School in San Francisco. The first location of the school was at Post Street, near Gough Street in a building that housed many other notable artists including Leo Lentelli, Clark Hobart, William Claussen, Louise Mahoney, Florence Lundberg, Sigmund Beel, and George Hyde. The school was popular and moved to a larger space at the "Artists Building" at 535 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. They had two sons. Their son, Donald Spencer Macky (1913–2007) was also an artist. Seattle Art Museum, and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Artist Ruth Cravath carved a bust of Macky in 1935, which is now part of the collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.