biography of Thomas GEORGE (1918-2009/14)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: Princeton, NJ

Profession: Painter

Studied: Dartmouth College (B.A., 1940); ASL; Acad. de la Grande Chaumière, Paris; Ist Statale Arte, Florence, Italy.

Exhibited: Carnegie Int., 1958, 1961; WMAA Ann., 1960, 1961 (prize for painting), 1962 (prize for drawing) 1965; PAFA, 1962; NJ State Mus., 1972 (prize); Salon Int. Galeries Pilote, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1966 (prize); Corcoran Gal., 1963; Japan Int. Biennial Art, Tokyo, 1963; Illinois Univ. Ann., 1965; Nat. Collection Fine Arts Inaugural Exhib., 1968; Betty Parsons Gallery, NYC, 1970s.

Member: Edward MacDowell Colony (fellow).

Work: MoMA; WMAA; NMAA; Tate Gallery, London, Eng; Rose Art Mus., Brandeis Univ. Commissions: tapestry, Slatkin Art Gal., NYC, 1968.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, gouache, ink. Publications: illustrator,A Line of Poetry, a Row of Trees, Jargon, 1965.

Sources: WW73; Gordon Washburn, foreword, Ten Year Retrospective, exhib. cat., (Dartmouth, 1965); Martica Sawin, The Nature of Symbols of Thomas George," Art Int. (1965); J. Jacobs, "Norway Series Drawings," Art Gallery magazine (1972); Falk, Exh. Record Series.