About Neil Meitzler

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Herbert Neil Meitzler
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    COLLECTIONS:
    Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
    Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis TE
    Washington County Museum of Art, Hagerstown, MD
    Pacific NW Bell Telephone, Seattle, WA
    Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
    Household Collection of the Emperor of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
    Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
    Safeco Collection, Seattle, WA
    Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
    Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
    Numerous other public and private collections

    AWARDS:
    National Council on the Arts, Washington D.C., Artists Grant , 1967 $5,000
    Katherine Baker Purchase Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1958
    Purchase prize, Northwest Watercolor Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum,
    Seattle, WA. 1958
    Purchase prize, Wash County Arts Council award, Wash Co. Museum of art, Hagerstown, MD, 1985

    SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
    Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA., 1998
    Clyde & Mary Harris Gallery, Walla Walla College, Walla Walla,WA., 1998
    Kurt Kitdke Gallery, Seattle, WA 1995
    Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991
    Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Recent Paintings", 1990
    Mid-Columbia Art Center, Tri-Cities, WA, "Landscapes, Remebered and Destroyed" , 1993
    Gordon Woodside Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1975, 1973, 1972, 1967-65
    Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA 1961, 195
    Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1959

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
    Iridescent Light, The Emergence of Northwest Art, LaConner Museum of Art, 2002
    Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA, "From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the
    Rural Landscape", 1999
    Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, "Visual Translations", 1990
    Mary Harris Gallery, Walla Walla College, 1989
    Artists of Washington County, Hagerstown, MD, 1987, 1986, 1985
    Northwest Art from Corporate Collections, Seattle, WA, 1984
    Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, "Painters of
    the Northwest School", 1969
    Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA, "Northwest Art", 1969
    Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, "Thirty Five Seattle Artists: Seattle
    to Kobe, Kobe Municipal Art Museum, Japan, February, 1966. Circuit:
    Seattle Art museum; Alaska Methodist Univsersity; Anchorage, AK
    Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; College of Great Falls, MT
    Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA; Gonzaga University, Spokane,
    Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA, "Northwest Artists", 1965
    State Capitol Museum, Olympia, WA; "First Annual Governor's
    Invitational Art Show"; 1964
    Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA "Festival of the Arts"; 1964
    Collections from Washington State; Washington DC, 1966
    Artists of the Northwest, Kobe, Japan, 1965
    Artists West of the Mississippi; Colorado Springs, CO, 1963
    Pacific Coast Invitational, 1962-63 (exhibit to six west coast museums
    Seattle Worlds Fair, Seattle, WA "Northwest Artists"; 1962
    Grand Rapids Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; 1961
    Alaska Methodist University, Anchorage, AL; 1960
    Artists West of the Mississippi; Colorado Springs, CO
    Art in the USA, New York, NY; 1959
    Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Portland Centennial; 1959
    University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Biennial Exhibition; 1959
    Northwest Annual, Seattle, WA; 1954, 1955, 1957-1968, 1973

    PUBLICATIONS:
    Iridecent Light, Artists of the Northwest, U of W Press, Seattle, WA 2001
    The Pacific Northwest Landscape, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, 2001
    The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, U of WA Press, 1999
    Seattle Parks Centennial Commission; Northwest Art From Corporate Collections, 1984
    Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA; Northwest Painting, 1969
    Seattle Art Museum, WA; Thirty Five Seattle Artists, cat., 1966
    Sloan Galleries, Valparaiso, IN; Art of Northwest Coast, 1962
    Seattle World's Fair; Northwest Art Today, 1962
    Mademoiselle Magazine, April 1962, page 172; Something to Talk About in Seattle
    by Leo Lerman
    G. G. Albi and G. B. Peck, The Artists of Puget Sound, 1961
    Alaska Methodist University; The Artists, Exhibition (2 pamphlet catalog), 1960
    Portland Art Museum, Painting and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon,
    Washington, and British Columbia, 1959
    Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1959, University of Illinois,

    Neil Meitzler died of pancreatic cancer on February 2, 2009.

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