'Vermont Quarry' by Guy Maccoy, 1941, Kansas City Art Institute, New York, Art Students League, Works Progress Administration

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Signed lower right, 'Guy Maccoy' (American, dated 1941 and titled, lower left, 'Vermont Quarry'.

Serigrapher, muralist and teacher, Guy Maccoy … more Signed lower right, 'Guy Maccoy' (American, dated 1941 and titled, lower left, 'Vermont Quarry'.

Serigrapher, muralist and teacher, Guy Maccoy began his art studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and continued with Ernest Lawson in Colorado Springs. Upon moving to New York City, he studied at the Art Students League and at Columbia University. In 1932 he began producing silk screen prints in New York City with his wife, Geno Pettit. During the 1930s Depression, he enrolled as a muralist in the Federal Art Project. He and Geno moved to Los Angeles in 1947 and co-founded the Western Serigraph Society. He taught at Jepson and Otis art schools until retirement in 1965.

Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 00 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 2110; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, p. 266; et al. less