biography of Roy Vincent MACNICOL (1889-1970)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, designer, teacher, writer, lecturer

Studied: Univ. Ill.

Exhibited: Arch. Lg.; NAD; Anderson Gal.; Seligmann Gal.; AIC; Dudensing Gal., NY; Seville, Spain; Everglades Cl., Palm Beach; LACMA; Hamilton House, Shanghai, China; Marshall Field's; Lyceum, Havana, Cuba; Newhouse Gal., 1927, 1940; Royal Victoria Inst., Trinidad, B.W.I.; Bridgetown, B.W.I.; Milch Gal.; Pan-Am. Union; Hudson Co., Detroit; Findlay Gal., Chicago; Barker Bros., Los A.; Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Aeta Gal., Stockholm, Sweden (first American solo exh. to be presented there); Paris, France and Copenhagen, Denmark, 1956; Weil Gal., Paris; Gal. Vivienne, NY, 1949 (exh. televised by NBC), and many others nationally and internationally. 50 solo exhs., opened in Wash., DC, 1943 at Pan-American Union, sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Pres. Miguel Aleman, the Mexican Cabinet and Pan-Am. Union.

Member: Baltimore WC Soc.; Lotos Cl.; Pan-Am. Union.

Work: Randolph-Macon Woman's Col.; Univ. Havana, Cuba; Univ. Illinois; Reporter's Cl., Havana; Findlay Gal., Chicago; priv. colls. Murals: Geneve Hotel, Mexico City; Moore-McCormack SS Lines; Harmon End.

Comments: Creator of first Good Neighbor Exhs., Mexican theme, in interest of international good will. Lectures: Art and Spain. Author: Paint Brush Ambassador, 1957; The Flame of Genius (on El Greco). Position: assoc. ed., American Historical Company, NYC Contributor to Christian Science Monitor; Atlanta Journal Times Herald; Mexico City News; Havana Post, etc.

Sources: WW59; WW40.