Biografie von Charles QUEST (1904-1993)

Birth place: Troy, NY

Death place: Tryon, NC

Addresses: St. Louis, MA/Webster Groves, MO; Tryon, NC, 1971-on

Profession: Painter, educator, etcher, engraver, sculptor

Studied: Wash. Univ. Sch. FA, 1924-29; advanced study in Paris, France, 1929; summer study, Spain, France & England, 1960; Fred Carpenter; Edmund Wuerpel.

Exhibited: Les Peintres Graveurs Actuels Aux …tats-Unis, Bibliothèque Nat., Paris, 1951; Am. Watercolor, Drawings & Prints Exh., MMA, New York, 1952; Art in the Embassies Program, Dept. of State, Washington, DC, 1967; 51st Exh., SAGA, New York, 1971; NGA; MoMA, 1933; CGA; CI; NAD; SFMA; CAM, 1932-46, 1944 (prize; AIC, 1942; 1942; WFNY 1939; Swope Art Gal.; SAM; Springfield MA, 1945 (prize); Kansas City AI, 1932 (medal); CAFA; Smith College; San Diego FAS; CM; CMA; LOC 1945, 1946; St. Louis AG, 1923 (prize), 1924, 1925 (prize), 1926, 1927 (prize), 1928, 1929, 1930 (prize), 1932 (prize,) 1933, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1946. Additional awards: purchase prize, 3rd Ann. Nat. Print Exh., BM, 1949; purchase prize, Nat. Print Exh., LOC, 1952; purchase prize, 51st Ann. Print Exh., SAGA, 1971.

Member: St. Louis AG; SAGA; Missouri State Teachers Assn.

Work: British Mus., London, England; Victoria & Albert Mus., London; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; MoMA; MMA; U.S. War Dept., Wash., DC; Univ. Wisconsin; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst.; CAM; Springfield MA; LOC; Carpenter Branch Lib.; St. Mary's Church, Helena, AR; Hotel Chase, St. Louis; Pub. Sch., University City, Munic. Auditorium, St. Louis; baptistry murals, St. Michael & St. George Episcopal Church, St Louis, MO, 1934; altar painting, Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Louis, 1935; altar painting, Old Cathedral, St. Louis, 1959-60.

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Teaching: St. Louis Public Schools, 1929-44; Wash. Univ. Sch. FA, 1944-70s.

Sources: WW73; WW47; article, St Louis Post Dispatch, 1960; demonstration of printmaking, 1968 & demonstration of figure drawing, 1968, Art in St Louis," (program produced on KMOX-TV, St. Louis). "