ICARUS - 36/40 - Dean Meeker - 1964

This bold print entitled "Icarus" was made by accomplished printmaker and sculpture, Dean Meeker in 1964. The image is stark, striking and rather beautiful. This excellent print is nicely framed. See below for Meeker's biography.  

Print measures 27" x 19"

Frame measures 41" x 27"

A printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher, Dean Meeker taught in the Art Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1946 to 1992. He was born in Orchard, Colorado, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin. 

Exhibition venues included the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Holdings : Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Milwaukee; Beloit College Art Museum; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Carlton College in Northfield, MN; Cognac Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; De Cordova and Dana Museum in Lincoln, NE; Denison University; Detroit Institute of Fine Arts; Library of Congress; Los Angeles County Museum; Marshall College; Museum of Modern Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; University of California; University of Wisconsin; Walker Art Center; White Art Museum; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery ; Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; Victoria & Albert Museum in London; U.S. Information Agency in Bonn, Germany.