biography of Walter MEIGS (1918-1988)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: Canarias, Spain

Profession: Painter

Studied: Syracuse Univ. (B.F.A.); …cole Beaux-Arts, Fontainebleau, France (dipl.); Univ. Iowa (M.F.A.).

Exhibited: WMAA, 1951-52, 1958; Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1953; Birmingham Art Mus., 1954 (purchase prize); Boston FA Festival, 1956, 1959 (1st prize for drawing); Springfield (MA) Art Mus., 1957 (1st prize); Carnegie Int.; Univ. Illinois, Champaign & Univ. Iowa, Iowa City; Nordness Gal., NYC, 1970s.

Work: Amherst (MA) College; Denver AM; Virginia Mus. FA, Richmond; Smithsonian Inst.; Ohio Univ., Athens.

Comments: Preferred media: plastic paints. Teaching: Univ. Nebraska, 1949-53; Univ. Conn., 1953-61.

Sources: WW73; Lee Nordness, Distinguished Exhibition of American Art 7 (1960); A. J. Weller, Art USA: Now (C.J. Bucher, 1962).