About
Peter Marcus creates large-scale composite prints using a unique collagraph printmaking process. He says that his work crosses boundaries between painting, printmaking and drawing. As a professor of art at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, for over thirty years, Marcus began experimenting with large prints of buildings. After several years of retirement in Jamestown, Rhode Island, he turned his attention to the face, creating provocative portraits of his friends and family. Originally from New York, Marcus obtained a BS from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Brooklyn College, with special studies in printmaking at the Scuola del Libro in Urbana, Italy. Marcus has exhibited nationally and is represented in the collections of the Newport Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Art, among others.
Peter Marcus, photograph by Scott Lapham
C.V.
Peter E. Marcus
52 Ocean Ave., Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835
401 423 2899 home - 314 602 0796 mobile
Education
1964 Special Studies in Printmaking, Scuola del Libro, Urbino, Italy
1964 M.F.A. Printmaking, Brooklyn College
1962 B.S. Industrial Design, New York University
1960 Certificate, Parson’s School of Design
Professional Experience
1967-1999 Professor of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Teach: painting and printmaking
1978-1988 Chair, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking Department
1965-1967 Instructor in Art, University of Wisconsin – Stout, Menomonie, WI
Taught: Printmaking, Three-dimensional design, industrial design, and art appreciation
Juror
1988 National Endowment for the Arts – Mid-Atlantic Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts – Special Projects
Awards
2011 Lifetime Teaching Award
Southern Graphics Council International
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
1984 M-AAA/NEA (Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment
for the Arts) Fellowship for Visual Artists in Printmaking
Scholarships
1978-1980 Grant for Master Print Workshop. Start of Island Press
1976 Member – Missouri Council for the Arts
2017 Board member Jamestown Art center
Shows
2017 Anna Maria College, Paxton MA
2016 Networks
2015 Newport Art Museum , Newport Rhode Island
2013 Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown Rhode Island
2011 Stienberg Art museum, St.Louis MO
2006 Molloy College, Long Island New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO
Bruno David gallery, st.louis MO
2002 Lydon Art, Chicago, IL
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1999 Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
1996 Indiana University of Pennsylfania, Indiana, PA
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO (one-person)
1995 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL
Milliken University, Decatur, IL (one-person)
Jansen Koos Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL (one-person)
1994 University of South Dakota
R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Elliot Smith Gallery (one-person), St. Louis, MO
1993 “Big Print,” University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
Drawing Center, New York, NY
Shed Aquarium, Chicago, IL
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1991 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO
1990 Jan Ciciero Gallery, Chicago, IL One-person show
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL Three-person show
1989 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL Group show
“Galerie Van Mourik,” Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1988 Suwa, Japan
Nanjing, China
Joy Moss Gallery, Miami, FL
1986 B.Z. Wagman, St. Louis, MO
“Currents 32: The Narragansett Bay Series,” St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1985 “Mid-America Arts Alliance/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Winners,” Traveling exhibition
“Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1983 “One of a Kind,” Maryland Art Institute
1980 “Works on Paper,” Missouri Arts Council
Montclair State, Montclair, NJ
1978 Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1977 Heron School of Art, Artist in Residence
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Artist in Residence
Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Mid-West Artist, Krannert Museum
1975 Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1974 Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1973 The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1972 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1968 San Diego State College, San Diego, CA
1967 Los Angeles County Museum
University of Kentucky
University of Minnesota
1967 Wisconsin Printmakers
New York State University, Invitational, Albany, NY
1966 University of Maine
American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition
Walker Art Center, three-man show
New York State University, Potsdam, NY
Kansas State Black and White Show
Brooklyn Museum, NY
1965 Springfield Museum, Springfield, IL
1964 Cooper Union Museum, NY
Collections
Newport Art Museum, Newport Rhode Island
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, MO
Boatman’s Bank, St. Louis, MO
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Commerce Bank, St. Louis, MO
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Europe-Wide I
Joseph Pulitzer. Jr.
Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, MO
Newark Public Library, NJ
Queens College, Queens, NY
Ralston Purina, St. Louis, MO
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
University of Wisconsin – Stout, WI
The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
The Seven-Up Company, St. Louis, MO
United Airlines
Tiaa-Cref
United States Steel, NY
United States Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Elvehjem Museum, WI
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo
William Gass
Milliken University, Decatur, IL
Beach Museum, Kansas State University, KS
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Ann Janss, Los Angeles, CA
Daum Museum , MO
Books
Allen, Lynne and McGibbon, Phyllis, The Best of Printmaking, An International Collection
Rockport Publishers, Inc., Glouchester, MA, 1997.
45 Contemporary American Printmakers, 1999.