The Art of Walter Quirt

CHRONOLOGY

Walter Quirt - The life long artist
From the time of a small boy Walter never wanted to be anything else

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  • 1902 Born on November 24th, 1902 in Iron River Michigan
  • 1921-1923 Studies at the Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 1924-1928 Becomes full instructor at the Layton School of Art
  • 1926-1928 Exhibits watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Watercolor Club
  • 1928-1929 Studies as guest at the McDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
  • 1929 Moves to New York City in the fall and begins attending John Reed Club Arts Section meetings
  • 1930-1932 Draws illustrations and writes articles for the New Masses
  • 1931 Marries Martha Pearse
  • 1932 Becomes secretary for the John Reed Club Arts Section
  • 1935 Joins rolls of WPA/FAP with position of Artist; also starts psychoanalysis under Dr. Margaret Fries continuing through 1938.
  • 1936 Has first one-man exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, February 18-March 11
  • 1937 Sits on panel at symposium, "Surrealism and its Political Significance" with Salvador Dali; paints murals The Growth of Medicine from Primitive Times for Bellevue Hospital; enrolls in the WPA/FAP mural project
  • 1939 Divorces Martha Pearse; marries Eleanor Falk
  • 1944 Leaves New York in the summer; Andrew Quirt is born; teaches as instructor at the Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1944-1945
  • 1945 Becomes assistant professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; wins Cranbook Prize at the "Michigan Artists Exhibition"
  • 1947 Begins teaching at University of Minnesota as assistant professor
  • 1948 Peter Quirt born
  • 1952 Jonathan Quirt born
  • 1956 Becomes associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Art Department
  • 1959 Appointed as full professor
  • 1960 Walter Quirt Retrospective begins
  • 1963 Spends quarter on leave from University of Minnesota in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
  • 1964 Spends winter quarter as an artist-in-residence at the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
  • 1965 Spends winter quarter on leave in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
  • 1966 Takes part in exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Landscape as Interpreted by 22 Artists
  • 1967 Spends winter quarter on leave to study linear preferences of Yucatan natives; becomes ill with lung cancer
  • 1968 Dies of lung cancer March 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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