biography of Gordon SAMSTAG (1906-1990)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: Bronxville, NY, 1940s-61; North Queensland, Australia, 1961-on

Profession: Painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher

Studied: NAD; ASL; C.W. Hawthorne; Neillson; also in Paris.

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1928-43 (6 times); NAD, 1931 (prize), 1936 (prize), 1949 (Clarke Prize); Salons of Am., 1934; PAFA Ann., 1935-37 (prize 1936), 1950 (Lippincott Prize); AIC, 1936, 1938; All.A.Am., 1936 (prize); Pulitzer traveling scholarship, 1938; Palm Beach AL, 1935 (prize); CAFA, 1936 (prize); CI, 1959; Contemp. Art Soc. Interstate, Hobart Tas., Melbourne & Sydney, 1967-70; Woodville Critics Prize, 1968.

Member: ANA, 1939; CAFA; Allied AA; NAD; Contemp. Art Soc. (pres., 1968); Royal South Australian Soc. Art; Burnside Painting Group (pres., 1964).

Work: TMA; Santa Barbara Mus; Aldridge Collection, Australia. Commissions: WPA paintings USPO, Reidsville, NC & Scarsdale, NY; collage, Diamond Christensen, Adelaide.

Comments: Teaching: NAD, 1940; dir., Am. Art Sch., NYC, 1951-61; South Australian Sch. Art, 1961-71. Publications: editor, Bulletin Australian Soc. Educ. Through Art, 1968; Contemp. Art Soc. Quarterly, 1969; Collection, Elliot Aldridge, 1970.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.