Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
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1910 St. Joseph, Missouri - 1982 Clinton, NY, 1982.. Known for: Modernist genre, landscape, botanics easel and mural painting.
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, James Penney attended the University of Kansas where he studied art and graduated in 1931. Then he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League... Read full biography
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, James Penney attended the University of Kansas where he studied art and graduated in 1931. Then he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and John Sloan and others. During the days of the Federal Arts Project in the 1930s,... Read full biography
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, James Penney attended the University of Kansas where he studied art and graduated in 1931. Then he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and John Sloan and others. During the days of the Federal Arts Project in the 1930s, he had numerous mural commissions, and in the 1940s he became Vice-President of the Art Students League. By the end of World War II, he had become seriously committed to teaching, and in 1945, was... Read full biography
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, James Penney attended the University of Kansas where he studied art and graduated in 1931. Then he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and John Sloan and others. During the days of the Federal Arts Project in the 1930s, he had numerous mural commissions, and in the 1940s he became Vice-President of the Art Students League. By the end of World War II, he had become seriously committed to teaching, and in 1945, was appointed Instructor of Art at Bennington College in Millbrook, New York. Subsequently he taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York, Vassar College, and for more than twenty years, was a Professor of Art at Hamilton College in... Read full biography
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, James Penney attended the University of Kansas where he studied art and graduated in 1931. Then he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and John Sloan and others. During the days of the Federal Arts Project in the 1930s, he had numerous mural commissions, and in the 1940s he became Vice-President of the Art Students League. By the end of World War II, he had become seriously committed to teaching, and in 1945, was appointed Instructor of Art at Bennington College in Millbrook, New York. Subsequently he taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York, Vassar College, and for more than twenty years, was a Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He was the subject of two major retrospectives, 1955 and 1977, at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New Yor... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999Steiner, Raymond J187 pagesAmerican Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Adams, Henry (others)495 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesThe Nebraska State Capitol: A Harmony of the Arts
1990Luebke, Frederick C., Editor, H. Keith Sawyers, Dale Gibbes, Jon Nelson, Norman Geske119 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesThe American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988Columbus Museum of Art271 pages (color)Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesOrder and Enigma
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Clark-Langager, Sarah95 pagesThe Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Marlor, Clark S600 pagesThe Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst166 pages (color)Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979Springfield Library & Museum216 pages (color)Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project
1978Berman, Greta300 pagesNew Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz172 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesCatalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
1972Tomko, George237 pages (color)Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
1958
(Exhibition catalog)Baur, John I H72 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages