biography of William Wind MCKIM (1916-1995)

Birth place: Independence, MO

Addresses: Kansas City, MO

Profession: Printmaker, painter, illustrator, cartoonist, teacher

Studied: Kansas City AI, with Thomas Hart Benton & John S. DeMartelly; animal anatomy, J.E. Frazier.

Exhibited: Kansas City AI, 1938 (prize)-40 (prize), 1941, 1967 (solo); NY State Fair, 1938 (prize); WFNY, 1939; Missouri Pavilion, NYWF, 1964-65; Art of Two Cities, Kansas City & Minneapolis, 1966; Albrecht Gal., Saint Joseph, MO, 1967-68 (solo); 10 Missouri Painters Traveling Exhib., 1968-69; Mid. Am. Artists Exhib., Saint Louis & Kansas City, 1968 & 1970. Awards: D.M. Lighton Award, Midwestern Ann., Kansas City, 1940

Work: Wm. Rockhill Nelson Gal.; Kansas City Art Inst. Commissions: wildlife panorama, Kansas City Mus., 1962.

Comments: Preferred media: tempera, acrylics. Teaching: instr. drawing, Kansas City Art Inst., 1945-48, instr. lithography, 1948-58, prof. lithography, 1958-.

Sources: WW73; WW47.