biography of Joseph Martin STUART (1932)

Birth place: Seminole, OK

Addresses: Brookings, SD

Profession: Painter, museum director

Studied: Univ. New Mexico (B.F.A., 1959; M.A., 1962).

Exhibited: 10th & 11th Mid-Am. Exh., Nelson Mus., Kansas City, MO, 1960 & 1961; Western Artists 68th Ann., Denver Art Mus., 1962; Mus. Art, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, 1963; Northwest Artists 50th & 52nd Ann., SAM, 1964 & 1966; Jonson Gal., Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1969. Awards: first prize in painting, Cheney Cowles Mem. Mus., Spokane, WA, 1965; Salt Lake AC Purchase Award, 1967.

Member: Am. Soc. Arch. Hist.; South Dakota Mem. AC; Brookings Area Arts Council (director); Brookings FA Club.

Work: Art Mus., Univ. New Mexcio, Albuquerque; Jewett Gallery, College Idaho, Caldwell; Melick Library Coll., Eureka (IL) College; Salt Lake City (UT) AC. Commissions: mural, Donald B. Anderson, Roswell, NM, 1961.

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics. Positions: curator, Mus. Art, Univ. Oregon, 1962-63; director, Boise Gallery Art, 1964-68; director, Salt Lake AC, 1968-71; director, South Dakota Mem. AC, Brookings, 1971-; director, research project; Surv. Art in South Dakota, State & Nat. Endowment on the Arts grant, 1972-74. Publications: author, Nature in Abstract-Expressionism," Roswell Mus. Bulletin, 1960; author, "The Need for Art Education in the Public Schools," Pacific AA Review, 1962; author, "An Interview with Billy Apple," Boise AA Bulletin, 1966; author, "Stimuli," Utah Arch., fall, 1969. Teaching: Univ. Utah, 1969; South Dakota State Univ., 1971-. Collections arranged: Jannis Spyropoulos: Paintings, Roswell Mus. & Art Center, NM, 1962; Edward Kienholz: Sculpture, Boise (ID) Gal. Art, 1967; Lure of the West, Salt Lake AC, 1971."