John austin artist biography
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- As a commercial artist, Austin designed floats for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades.
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John Austin
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Born in North Carolina, John Austin’s youth was spent in New Jersey. He raised his family in Connecticut, before settling in Nantucket.
Austin studied at the Art Students’ League in NYC under Reginald Marsh and was subsequently mentored by Edward Hopper during two years in Truro and New York. As a commercial artist, Austin designed floats for the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. As a WWII serviceman, he produced training manuals for the Army. During his tour, he was constantly compiling sketchbooks that recorded European cities, the countryside and troops.
Post War, Austin returned again to the Art Students League, where he met his wife. By the early 60’s, he had taken up painting full time. With a preference for egg tempera, he produced representational paintings that recorded place: the shore, barns, and cottages of Cape Cod, Maine and New Hampshire.
The Nantucket body of work is substantial, and entirely reflective of the locale. Austin began exhibiting at the Lobster Pot Gallery, before moving on to Reggie Levine’s Main Street Ga
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John Austin Sands Monks
American artist
John Austin Sands Monks (1850–1917) was an American painter and etcher known especially for his paintings of sheep. Born in Cold Spring, New York, to John and Sarah Catherine Monks, he was educated at the Hudson River Institute and studied engraving under George N. Cass and painting under George Inness. He was a longtime resident of Medfield, Massachusetts and designed that town's corporate seal in 1896,[1] which is also featured on the town's flag. He also had a studio in Boston. He was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Copley Society, the Salmagundi Club, and the New York Etching Club.[2][3][4][5] His sister was the naturalist Sarah P. Monks.[6] He died in Chicago while visiting his daughter at the age of 66.[7]
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