biography of John Wilfred MCIVOR (1931-2011)

Birth place: Henderson, KY

Addresses: Buffalo, NY

Profession: Printmaker, painter

Studied: Murray State Univ., Kentucky,1949-50; Univ. Ill., Carbondale (B.F.A., summa cum laude, 1957; fel., 1957-59; M.F.A., 1959).

Exhibited: 100th Anniversary Show of Land Grant Colleges, Kansas City Art Inst., 1968; Master Drawings & Watercolors Since the 15th Century, Albright-Knox Art Gal., 1969; North of the Penn. Line, traveling show to mus of Northeast, 1969-71; Am. Fedn. Arts Traveling Exhib., 1970-71; Watercolors Since 1900; Birmingham Mus. Art, Ala., 1972. Awards: faculty fel., State Univ. NY Res. Found., 1970 & 1972.

Work: Albright-Knox Art Gal.; Am. Fedn. Arts, NYC; LOC; State Univ. NY Albany; Jacksonville Mus., Fla. Commissions: exterior (with David Hatchett), Buffalo Rehab. Comn., 1971.

Comments: Positions founder, Team Workshop, Buffalo. Teaching: asst. prof., Auburn Univ., 1959-63; prof., State Univ. NY Buffalo, 1963-86; vis. prof., Southern Ill. Univ., spring 1970.

Sources: WW73; Edward Reep, The Content of Watercolor (Reinhold, 1969); Krane, The Wayward Muse, 193.