Roger medearis biography

ABOUT ROGER MEDEARIS

ROGER MEDEARIS
(1920-2001)
Roger Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri, on March 6, 1920. At the age of 18 he enrolled in Kansas City Art Institute to become an illustrator.

His goals as an artist were transformed by his teacher, Thomas Hart Benton. His works sold in New York by Associated American Artists Galleries in 1940-41.

After his discharge from the army in 1946, he moved to Connecticut and built a studio.

He soon realized the once popular styles of Realism had been replaced with Abstract Expressionism.

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Nonetheless, seven of his Realist paintings were sold at his first show on April 1, 1949, at New York’s Kende Galleries. In his second show on June 5, 1950, he released “Family Reunion,” which later exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show entitled “American Painting Today: 1950-51.”

Disappointed by America’s aversion to Realism and his lack of income, Medearis returned to the Midwest.

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