biography of Herman MARIL (1908-1986)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Addresses: Baltimore, MD

Profession: Abstract painter, educator, draftsman

Studied: Baltimore Polytechnic Inst.; MD Inst. Fine Arts.

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1935-61 (10 times); PAFA Ann., 1934-35, 1939-42, 1947-53, 1960-62; VMFA, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946; Macbeth Gal.; CI Ann, 1943-45; AIC; WMAA; Pasadena AI; CPLH; WFNY, 1939; GGE, 1939; BMA, annually (retrospective, 1967); Silvermine Guild, 1963 (1st prize); Audubon Artists, 1972 (Stefan Hirsch Mem. Award); Forum Gal., NYC, 1970s. Other awards: Univ. Md. grant for creative & performing arts, 1966.

Member: Baltimore AG; Wash. AG; Baltimore A. Un.; Am. A. Cong; BMA (hon. trustee, 1972); Provincetown AA (hon. v. pres., 1972); College AA; AEA

Work: WMAA; MMA; BMA; SFMA; NMAA; Peale Mus.; PMG; Howard Univ.; Encyclopaedia Britannica Coll. Commissions: WPA murals, USPO, West Scranton, Pa, 1939 & USPO, Alta Vista, Va., 1940, Pub. Bldgs. Admin., US Treas. Dept., White House and Labor Dept. Bldg., Wash., DC; Jr. H.S., Baltimore; Cummington Sch., Mass.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, casein, acrylics. Teaching: PMA Col. Art, 1955-56; prof. painting, Univ. Md., 1947-70s.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Eliot O'Hara, "Restraint" (film), 1961; Emery Grossman, Art & Tradition (Yoseloff, 1967); Frank Getlein, Herman Maril (BMA, 1967); Provincetown Painters, 252; Falk, Exh. Record Series.