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Drawing and Painting from Life
School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale University,
where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Mr. McElhinney has had more than forty solo exhibitions in U.S. galleries and
museums.
His first European exhibition was in Ireland in 2003. He received a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and participated in the Candidates for Art
Awards exhibition at the National Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979 as well as
numerous group shows throughout
America. His artworks were featured in a show at The Painting Center in New York in
March 2005.
His teaching career began as an assistant to Bernard Chaet at Yale, followed by
appointments at Bowdoin College, Moore College of Art, Skidmore College, East
Carolina University and University of Colorado. In 1999 he was an Artist in Residence at
Harperâs Ferry National Historic Site. From 2000 to 2003 he ran a foreign study program
in art in the Venetian Dolomites in Italy.
Mr. McElhinney has published articles on a variety of art-related subjects in a
number of periodicals, including American Arts Quarterly and Glass and Metalsmith. He
is currently working on a book about visual literacy and the rebirth of drawing.
He teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His biography is included in the 2005
edition of Whoâs Who in America.
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