biography of Charles Ernest PONT (1898-1971)

Birth place: St. Julien, France

Addresses: NYC; Wilton, CT

Profession: Printmaker, painter, illustrator, lecturer, craftsperson, writer

Studied: Shelton Col.; PIA Sch.; CUA Sch.; ASL.

Exhibited: Southern Pr. M., 1941 (prize); SAE, 1937 (prize); Mineola Fair, 1934-36 (prize, each yr.); Int. Wood Engr. Exh., Warsaw, 1937; NAD, 1933-40; MMA, 1941; AIC, 1936-37; PAFA, 1932, 1940; Warsaw, Poland, 1935; Phila. Pr. C., 1932, 1939; Phila. A. All., 1930-31; LOC, 1943; SFMA; WFNY, 1939; Southern Pr. M.; New Haven Paint & Clay Cl.; Kent AA; Bridgeport Art Lg.; CAFA; AWCS; CMA; AAPL, 1957 (prize); Wm. Greenbaum Gal., Gloucester, 1989

Member: AWCS; Soc. Typophiles; Southern Pr. M.; AI Graphic A.

Work: LOC.; MMA; Syracuse Mus. FA; NY Pub. Lib.; Newark Pub. Lib.; Peabody Mus.; Appalachian Mus., Mt. Airy, Ga.; Staten Island Inst. A.&Sc.; Pub. Lib., Hasbrouck Heights, NJ; Pub. Lib., Mt. Vernon, NY.

Comments: Position: art dir., Magazine Digest,1951-52; asst. a. dir., Grosset & Dunlap, 1954-. Author/illus., des., "Tabernacle Alphabet," 1946; "The World's Collision," 1956. llustrator: "Whalers of the Midnight Sun," "Head Wind," "Down East," many other books. Lectures: Art and Theology.

Sources: WW59; WW47.