Igor Mead - Artist Info

About Igor Mead

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  • Biography from the Archives of askART

    Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher.

    “Preview Tomorrow for Artist… Garden Café… Burlingame… A native of Poland, Mead attended the Academie der Kunst in Munich, Germany. In this country he studied with Paul Sample at Dartmouth College, graduating with a B. A. in art and earned his Master’s degree in painting and sculpture at the University of California at Berkeley.

    He also has exhibited extensively on both American coasts and in Western Europe. A painter of many styles and directions, he worked as a commercial artist, stage set designer and has won awards for his non-objective paintings and sculpture.

    At present Mead owns the Igor Mead Gallery in the San Francisco Cannery and has his studio in Palo Alto where he lives,”

    Source: The Times (San Mateo, Ca.), May 2, 1970, p. 7, PSCA v. 13, no. 7 L-P

    Citation - and Additional material can be found in: Nancy Moure, “Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960,” (PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. 13, NO. VII), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2022.

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