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Painting and Drawing from Life
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Daniel Dickerson studied at Cooper Union,
where he graduated with honors after serving in the U.S. Army Combat Infantry during
World War II. At Cooper Union, he studied with Will Barnet, Sidney Delevante and
Robert Gwathmey. He received an M.F.A. degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art,
followed by a year of travel and study in France, Italy and Germany.
Upon his return, he taught at the University of Oklahoma, then went to Mexico to
study the murals of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros, and to study the then new medium of
acrylic paint. He was later a Visiting Artist at Smith College and spent a summer at the
MacDowell Colony. A Fulbright Fellowship sent him to India, and the following year
found him painting in Italy and traveling in the Middle East, Greece and Spain. Returning
to New York, he taught at Finch College, where he was Chairman of the Art Department
until 1975. Later positions were at SUNY, Old Westbury and the National Academy of
Design.
Mr. Dickerson has had one-man shows at the ACA Gallery and Terry Dintenfass.
His many museum group exhibitions include those at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, the Pennsylvania Academy, the University of Illinois, the Indianapolis Museum of
Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design,
where he was elected a member in 1995. His awards include the Emily Lowe Award of
the Audubon Artists, the Silvermine Painting Award, the Ranger Fund Purchase Award
of the National Academy of Design, First Prize at the Springfield Museum and First Prize
at the Hartford Temple Show. His paintings are in the Hirshhorn Museum, the
Witherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, the Adelphi University
Museum, the Art Museum of Western Virginia, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,
D.C., and the University of Massachusetts Museum.
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