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Arthur Meltzer

Biography

Achievements

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Arthur Meltzer

 

     
 

 

 

 

Major Solo Exhibitions
MacBeth Gallery, New York, New York, 1929
Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, c. 1935
Crest Galleries, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1958
Scofield Gallery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1960
Woodmere Art Gallery, (now the Woodmere Art Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970
Newman and Saunders Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kramer Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota

Major Group Exhibitions
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1922-1938, 1940-1944, 1946
National Academy of Design, New York, New York, 1922
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1925
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1926
MacBeth Gallery, New York, New York, 1931
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1940
Woodmere Art Gallery, with Paulette Van Roekens and Davis Meltzer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1944
McClees Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1948
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949, 1983
Crest Galleries, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1958
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1959
Chester County Art Association, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1960
Newman Contemporary Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1964
Newman Gallery, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1967
Abbington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 1980
Newman and Saunders Gallery, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 1981
The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Painters of the New Hope School, James A. Michener Art Center, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1990

Major Collections
Art Alliance of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carlisle Art Museum, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Columbus Gallery of the Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woodmere Art Museum (former Woodmere Art Gallery), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Commissions
Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exhibition (backdrop for forestry exhibit), three murals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926
Sketches of mills, Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Publications
Bridge at Trexlers, cover of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981
The Window on the Arts, Literature, and Society, The Mill District, Minnesota, June, 1991

Teaching and Professional Appointments
Professor, Philadelphia School of Design for Women, (now the Moore College of Art and Design), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1924
Head of Fine Arts Department, Philadelphia School of Design for Women, (now the Moore College of Art and Design), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1926 until 1949
Professor Emeritus, Moore College of Art and Design, 1983
Fellow, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1925

Major Awards
Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1921
Honorable Mention, Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1924-1927
Fellowship Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925
Honorable Mention, Philadelphia Art Club, 1926
Connecticut Prize, Hartford, Connecticut, 1931
Second Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, 1949
First Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, 1951
Gold Medal, Fourth Pennational Artists Annual, Ligonier Art League, 1961
Williamson Prize, Phillip's Mill Art Association, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1963
Rosenau Prize, Old York Road Art Guild, 1967
Paul L. Gill Memorial Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, 1967
Mary T. Mason Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, 1969
Samuel Sutter Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, 1971
Prize, Old York Road Art Guild, 1967, 1973
DeVecchi Prize, Phillip's Mill Art Association, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1975

Affiliations and Memberships
Da Vinci Alliance
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Woodmere Art Gallery
Woodmere Art Gallery, Board of Directors

 
   

 
         
                     
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