Canton Museum of Art
1001 Market Avenue North
Canton, OH 44702
Canton, OH 44702
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Museums page for James Penney ((1910 - 1982)), known for Modernist genre, landscape, botanics easel and mural painting. Showing 6 museum collections and exhibitions.
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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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Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsColumbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455