John ross printmaker biography

Biography

JOHN ROSS, painter, printmaker, and Professor of Art at Manhattanville College, also teaches printmaking at The New School in New York City. He has served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and is active in a number of art organizations. He has illustrated many books with drawings and prints. Ross has had over sixty one-man shows and is represented in the permanent collections of the National Collections of Fine Arts, Hirshhorn Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Dallas Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Philadelphia Public Library, Cincinnati Art Museum, and in many university and college collections. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the White House, and in many traveling exhibitions to scores of foreign countries, and he spent nine months as artist in residence with the United States Information Agency Exhibition, "Graphics U.S.A.," in Yugoslavia and Romania, giving lectures and demonstrations.

John Ross, painter, printmaker, author, and educator, was born in New York City on September 25, 1921. He studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York from 1939 to 1948 with Morris Kantor and Will Barnet, and received his Bachelor in Fine Arts degree. He attended Parson School of Design in New York in 1939, and, in 1949 Ross studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France. He returned to New York in 1950, where he furthered his art studies at the New School for Social Research under Antonio Frasconi and Louis Schanker, and at Columbia University.

In 1964 Ross took a position as Professor of studio art at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where he remained until 1986. He designed the BFA program and served as chair of the art department from 1966 to 1972. He also taught printmaking at the New School University in New York City for over fifty years, and produced nineteen artist's books which were published by The High Tide Press, as well as The Complete Collagraph (1980), The Complete Screen Print and Lithograph (1974), The Complete Relief Pri

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