biography of Isaac Lane MUSE (1906-1996)

Birth place: Maysville, KY

Addresses: Newark, NJ, until mid-1940s; NYC, from mid-1940s on

Profession: Painter, lecturer, screenprinter, teacher, writer

Studied: Elmer Taflinger; Fritz Schlemmer; R. Selfridge; NAD.

Exhibited: Indiana State Fair, 1932 (prize), 1933 (prize); S. Indp. A., 1942-44; Elisabeth Ney Mus., 1943 (prize); San Diego FA Soc., 1941; AIC, 1941; Denver Art Mus., 1943; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art, 1945; Artists of Today, 1941-45; Art Gal., NY, 1943; Fitchburg AC, 1941; Nat. Serigraph Soc. Gal., 1947 (solo); WMAA, 1947-48; Mortimer Levitt Gal., NY (solo); Bertha Schaefer Gal., 1951.

Member: Artists of Today; Audubon Artists; Nat. Serigraph Soc.; NewJersey AA

Work: MoMA; WMAA; Columbia Univ.; Montclair Mus.; Newark Mus.; Albright Art Gal.; SFMA; State Mus., Iowa; Denver Art Mus.; Fitchburg AC

Comments: Illustr.: Mr. Brown and the Bear, by Osmond Beckwith, 1948. Teaching: Columbia Univ. (summer). He gave private instruction to Grace Hartigan (see entry) for four years in the 1940s.

Sources: WW53; WW47; add'l info. courtesy of Charles Semowich, Rensselaer, NY; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 279.