The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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1920 Fayette, Missouri - 2001 San Marino, California. Known for: Regionalist painting, military drawing, lithography.
ROGER MEDEARIS. Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920, and during his childhood lived in a succession of small towns in Missouri and Oklahoma. From earliest memory he... Read full biography
ROGER MEDEARIS. Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920, and during his childhood lived in a succession of small towns in Missouri and Oklahoma. From earliest memory he was fascinated by pictures. He had little access to the fine arts but by the mid 1930's he was so... Read full biography
ROGER MEDEARIS. Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920, and during his childhood lived in a succession of small towns in Missouri and Oklahoma. From earliest memory he was fascinated by pictures. He had little access to the fine arts but by the mid 1930's he was so enchanted by story illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post that he spent many hours creating "tortured imitations" in gouache of the pictures he most admired. In 1938, when he was eighteen, he... Read full biography
ROGER MEDEARIS. Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920, and during his childhood lived in a succession of small towns in Missouri and Oklahoma. From earliest memory he was fascinated by pictures. He had little access to the fine arts but by the mid 1930's he was so enchanted by story illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post that he spent many hours creating "tortured imitations" in gouache of the pictures he most admired. In 1938, when he was eighteen, he enrolled in the Kansas City Art Institute, hoping to become an illustrator. There he met the celebrated artist Thomas Hart Benton and soon became his student and disciple. His goals as an artist were transformed by Benton's concept of Regionalism, and... Read full biography
ROGER MEDEARIS. Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920, and during his childhood lived in a succession of small towns in Missouri and Oklahoma. From earliest memory he was fascinated by pictures. He had little access to the fine arts but by the mid 1930's he was so enchanted by story illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post that he spent many hours creating "tortured imitations" in gouache of the pictures he most admired. In 1938, when he was eighteen, he enrolled in the Kansas City Art Institute, hoping to become an illustrator. There he met the celebrated artist Thomas Hart Benton and soon became his student and disciple. His goals as an artist were transformed by Benton's concept of Regionalism, and while still a student he made a number of paintings representing people and places that he knew through personal experience. These were... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesRemembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints
2001Goddard, Stephen0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesUnder the Influence: The Students Of Thomas Hart Benton
1993Berardi, Marianne; Henry Adams0 pages