biography of Jack BOOKBINDER (1911-1990)

Birth place: Odessa, Ukraine

Death place: Philadelphia, PA?

Addresses: Phila., PA

Profession: Painter, writer, lithographer, teacher, lecturer

Studied: UPenn., BS in Educ.; PAFA, with H. McCarter, D. Garber; Tyler Sch. Art, Temple Univ., MFA; Europe.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1944-54, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1966; LOC, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1951; Corcoran Gal, 1945, 1951, 1957; Phila. Pr. Cl., 1944-52; DaVinci All., 1944, 1945; Woodmere A. Gal., 1944-52; Albany Inst. Hist. & A., 1945; Nessler Gallery, NYC (solo); 100 American Water Colorists Exhibition, Royal Acad. Arts, London, Eng., 1962; American Printmakers Abroad, US State Dept. Exhib., 1962; Two Hundred Years of American Watercolorists, Mexico City, Mex., 1968. Awards: Mong Q. Lee Mem. Award, 1961; William Church Osborn Mem. Award, 1968, Am. WC Soc.; New England Heritage Award, Acad. Artists Assn., 1971; Newman Galleries, Phila., 1970s.

Member: F., Barnes Fnd., 1938, 1939; Phila. A. All.; AEA; Phila. WCC; Eastern AA; Phila. A. T. Assn.; Audubon Artists; Print Coun. Am.; Am. WCSoc.

Work: PAFA; PMA; LOC; NGA; Yale Univ. Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. Commissions: mosaic mural (with Frederick Geasland), Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1964; painting of Hahnemann Med. Col., Squibb Pharmaceutical Co., 1966.

Comments: Preferred media: oils. Positions: consult., dept educ., PMA, 1945-46; spec. asst. to dir. of art educ., sch. dist. of Philadelphia, 1946-59, dir. of art educ., 1959-70s. Lecturer: Barnes Found., Merion, Pa., 1936-44; UPenn., 1947-59; PAFA, 1949-61. Auth., Invitation to the Arts & The Gifted Child; "History of Sculpture & Art in the Life of Children," Compton's Encycl; contrib. ed., School Arts mag.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Henry Pitz, Jack Bookbinder, Painter & Educator," Am Artists Mag (March, 1961). "