biography of James HENDRICKS (1938-2017)

Birth place: Little Rock, AR

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: Univ. Arkansas, Fayetteville (B.A., 1963); Univ. Iowa (M.F.A., 1964).

Exhibited: Nat. Painting Exhib., Soc. Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., 1968 (top prize for painting); Biennial Contemp. Am. Painting & Sculpture, Krannert Art Mus., Univ. Ill., 1969; Purdue Univ Art Gallery, 1969 (award) Silvermine Guild Artists, 1969 (award); Nat. Drawing Exhib., SFMA, Calif., 1970; Nat. Gallery Art, 1970; Abstr. Painting, De Cordova Mus., Lincoln, MA, 1971.

Work: Finch College Mus., NYC; Smithsonian Inst.; Univ. Mass., Amherst; Hudson River Mus., Yonkers, NY; Western Wash. State College, Billingham. Commissions: Apollo 14 Launch, Nat. Gal. Art & NASA, 1971.

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics, oils. Illusr., cover, Time,1971. Teaching: State Univ. Iowa, 1963-64; Mt. Holyoke College, 1964-65; Univ. Mass., Amherst, 1965-.

Sources: WW73; H. Lester Cooke, Eyewitness to Space (Abrams, 1971); Ven Deren Coke, The Painter & the Photograph (Univ. New Mexico Press, 1972).