biography of Rollin PICKFORD (1912-2010)

Birth place: Fresno, CA

Addresses: Fresno, CA

Profession: Painter

Studied: Fresno State Col.; Stanford Univ. (B.A.); also with Alexander Nepote, Ralph DuCasse, James Weeks & Joseph Mugnaini.

Exhibited: All-Calif. Invitational, Laguna Beach, 1960 (best of show); Watercolor USA, Springfield, Mo., 1962 (first prize and purchase award), 1965 & 1966; Calif State Fair, 1963 (first prize & purchase award); Mainstreams '1968, Marietta, OH, 1968; Calif. Nat. WC Soc. Traveling Show, Riverside Mus., New York & VMFA; Austrian-Am. Exchange Exhib., Linz, Salzburg & Vienna, Austria, 1972.

Member: West Coast WC Soc.; Carmel AA; Fresno Arts Ctr.; Old Bergen Art Guild; Calif. WC Soc.

Work: Springfield Art Mus., Mo.; State of Calif. Coll., Sacramento; Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich.; Fresno Arts Ctr.; City of Santa Paula, Calif.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, oils, acrylics. Positions: pres., Fresno Art League, 1946-47. Teaching: instr. art, Fresno State Col., 1948-62. Publications: illusr., stories by William Saroyan, Lincoln-Mercury Times & Ford Times, 50's; auth., "A Philosophical Approach to Watercolor," Am. Artist (1969).

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