biography of William Ashby MCCLOY (1913-2001)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Addresses: Iowa City, Des Moines, IA; Uncasville, CT

Profession: Painter, sculptor

Studied: State Univ. Iowa (B.A.in Art, 1933, M.A.in Psychology, 1936, M.F.A. in Art, 1949 & Ph.D. in Art History, 1958); studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky, sculpture with Humbert Albrizio, painting with Eugene Ludens; painting with Eugene Savage at Yale Sch. FA.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1936, 1938, 1948; AIC, 1936, 1938, 1940; Kansas City AI, 1939; Iowa Art Salon, 1934, 1936 (hon. men.), 1937; All Iowa Exhibit, Carson Pirie Scott, 1937; Iowa Artists Exhibit, Mt. Vernon, 1938; AIC; Wash., DC; Iowa State Col.; Omaha, NE; Iowa City, IA; NAD; PAFA; Cincinatti AM; WMAA, MMA; Walker Art Center; LOC; Joselyn Mem. Mus., Vancouver A. Gal.; Toronto A. Gal.; Winnipeg A. Gal.

Work: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Joslyn Art Center, Omaha, NE; Winnipeg Art Gal.; LOC; Norwich (CT) Free Academy; Pub. Lib., New London, CT. Commissions: three figure group sculpture, Connecticut Col., New London, 1970; Wisconsin State Hist. Soc (mural); Univ. of Manitoba (mural).

Comments: To age thirteen he was reared and educated in Nanking and Shanghai, China, returning to the United States in 1926. Preferred media: collage, steel. Teaching: asst. prof., Drake Univ.; asst. prof. drawing & painting, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, 1939-48; prof. drawing & art hist. & dir. school art, Univ. Manitoba, 1950-54; prof. studio & art history, Connecticut Col., 1954-. Retired as professor emeritus in 1978. Position: mural assistant to John Steuart Curry, 1939-43.

Sources: WW73; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 141-42; Falk, Exh. Record Series; addl. info. courtesy Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, Wash.