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In a portion of the Sarasota area that once had been the incorporated community of Bay Haven, the former Bay Haven Hotel and several adjacent store buildings close to its downtown and railway station became the location for the new art school. With much reluctance, Ringling agreed that it could be known as the School of Fine and Applied Art of the John and Mable Ringling Art Museum, lending his name and that of his former wife to the school, to associate the Florida Southern art school with the more famous name of the Ringlings and their museum. Repeatedly Spivey's plan to found an art school was discussed and, after much negotiation, it was agreed that Southern College would open its own art school in Sarasota as a branch. After a ten-year struggle, his nephew was able to keep that deteriorating estate parcel intact and retained by the state. In retrospect, failure to involve Ringling in founding the school became a stroke of luck for its survival: if Ringling had founded the art school as requested, it would have been subjected to the same fate. His will left his residential property, including his home and the museum, to the state, otherwise they would have been sold for debts along with his other holdings. He died just before losing his museum and residence to bankruptcy. This marriage ended in divorce shortly before the death of John Ringling in 1936. A year later, in 1930, he married Emily Haag Buck in Jersey City, New Jersey, a wealthy woman who turned out to have little interest in Florida. Ringling's first wife died in June 1929, a few months before the crash of the stock market.

If Ringling could have, he would have opened his own art school that was drawn on his original plans for the museum, but not built because of a lack of funds. Most importantly, Ringling nearly was bankrupt. The museum was constructed on their estate in the form of an Italian villa to house a vast collection of seventeenth century sculpture and paintings collected on their travels and at auctions.

At that time, Spivey learned that Ringling was not interested in giving to Southern College and he was more interested in establishing his own art school at the museum founded with his first wife, Mable. Spivey sought financial support for this concept from the Sarasota circus magnate, John Ringling. Spivey, then president of Southern College, which was founded in 1856 in Lakeland, Florida, and is now called Florida Southern College. The concept of founding this art school originated from Dr.

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