Biografie von Norman Arthur BATE (1916-1980)

Birth place: Buffalo, NY

Death place: Geneva, NY?

Addresses: Geneva, NY

Profession: Educator, printmaker

Studied: Pratt Inst., BFA, 1954; Univ. IL, MFA, 1957.

Exhibited: Peabody Mus., Boston, Mass., 1958; Audubon Artists Ann., 1959 (John Taylor Arms Medal & Award for etching); LOC, 1959 (Joseph Pennell Award for etching); Carnegie Gallery, Univ. Maine, 1959 (solo); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1959 (Greene Award for etching); Nazareth Col, Rochester, 1964 (solo).

Member: Can. Soc. Painter-Etchers & Engravers; Print Club Rochester (pres., 1959-1961).

Work: Audubon Artists; Univ. Maine, Orono; Fogg Mus., Boston, Mass.; Seattle Art Mus., Wash.; also in collection of Dr. Marland, Comnr. Educ., Washington, DC. Commissions: etchings, 100 prints, Int. Graphic Art Soc., New York, 1957, 200 prints, Assoc. AM Artists, New York, 1958 & 100 prints, Print Club Rochester, NY, 1961.

Comments: Teaching: asst. prof. drawing, Pratt Inst., 1951-1955; prof. printmaking & illus., Rochester Inst. Technol., 1957-. Publications: auth./illusr., Who built the highway? (1953), Who built the bridge? (1954), Who fishes for oil? (1955), What a Wonderful Machine is the Submarine (1961), When cave men painted (1963).

Sources: WW73; add'l info. courtesy Anthony R. White, Burlingame, Ca.