Butler Institute of American Art
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Youngstown, OH 44502
Youngstown, OH 44502
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Roger Medearis MUSEUMS
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
Roger Medearis - Artist Info
About Roger Medearis: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsNational Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA)
Altoona Facility (Brett Building)
1210 11th Ave
Altoona, PA 16601St. Louis Mercantile Library At The University Of Missouri - St. Louis
Thomas Jefferson Library Building
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423