John de Martelly

John Stockton de Martelly (1903–1979) was a twentieth-century American lithographer, etcher, painter, illustrator, teacher and writer.

John de Martelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1903. In Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Florence, Italy, as well as the Royal College of Art in London. 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.