Biografie von Melvin Joel ZABARSKY (1932)

Birth place: Worcester, MA

Addresses: Durham, NH

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: School Worcester Art Mus., Ruskin School Drawing & Fine Arts, Univ. Oxford; School Fine & Applied Arts, Boston Univ. (B.F.A.); Univ. Cincinnati (M.F.A.)

Exhibited: Boris Mirski Gal., Boston, 1962 (solo); Tragos Gal., Boston, 1966 (solo); De Cordova Mus., 1970 (solo); Surreal Images, De Cordova Mus., 1968; New England Painters Traveling Exhib., Ringling Mus., Sarasota, FL, 1969. Awards: painting prize, Boston Arts Festival, 1962; Ford Foundation grant in humanities, 1968.

Work: MoMA; De Cordova Mus., Lincoln, MA; Addison Gal. Am. Art, Andover, MA; Wiggins Coll., Boston (MA) Pub. Lib.; Currier Gal. Art, Manchester, NH.

Comments: Preferred media: oils. Teaching: painting instructor, Swain School Design, New Bedford, MA, 1960-64; asst. professor of painting, Wheaton Col., 1964-69; assoc. professor of painting, Univ. New Hampshire, 1969-.

Sources: WW73; C. Goldstein, Zabarsky, catalogue (De Cordova Mus., 1970); B. Schwartz, Humanism in Twentieth Century Art (Praeger, 1973).