MERFELD

Southwest Art - July 1996

STUDIED: Painting in Chicago with William Mosby Studio assistant to mural painter Dean Cornwell POSITION: A combat artist for the U. S. Navy in the Mediterranean and Vietnam AWARDS: Received the Louis E. Seley Gold Medal - U. S. Navy/Salmagundi Club 1989 American Artist Professional League "Gold Medal of Honor" 1989 Knickerbocker Artists "American Artists Magazine Award" Two gold medals at the Washington Square Exhibit, New York City Oklahoma Museum of Art "1975 Award for Painting" Marietta College "Mainstrreams '76 Juror's Award of Merit" & "Mainstreams '77 Award of Distinction" "First Prize" 1980 Hope Show "First Prize" and Silver Bowl, Butler Institute of American Art 1983 EXHIBITIONS: Springfield, Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institute Knickerbocker Artists, New York City Hudson Valley Art Association Audubon Artists, New York City Allied Artists of America, New York City Civic Fine Arts Association, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri National Academy of Western Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah Colorado Governor's Invitational, Loveland, Colorado Northwest Rendezvous, Helena, Montana Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Marietta College U.S. Navy Archives John J. McDonough Collection of American Art John Deere & Company Museum of Contemporary Impressionism The Walter Gray/Dan Blanchard Collection, Oklahoma City, OK PUBLICATIONS: "Gerald Merfeld's Teaching Tenets",an article by Charles Movalli, featured in the Dec. 1978 American Artist Magazine "Gerald Merfeld" by Betty Harvey in the Fall 1981 issue of Artists of the Rockies and the Goldern West "Gerald Merfeld: Maestro" by Betty Harvey-Manson in the July 1996 issue of Southwest Art Is included in the "Contemporary Western Artists" by Peggy and Harold Samuels Who's Who in American Art Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers Haddad's Fine Arts of California has published eleven Merfeld prints Is included in "Mordern Oil Impressionists" by Ron Ranson Who's Who in America