Peter E. Marcus
6376 Alamo
St. Louis, MO 63105
(314) 726-3182


Education

1964 Special Studies in Printmaking, Scuola del Libro, Urbino, Italy
1964 M.F.A. Printmaking, Brooklyn College
1962 B.S. Industrial Design, New York University
1960 Certificate, Parson’s School of Design


Professional Experience

1967-1999 Professor of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Taught: painting and printmaking
1978-1988 Chair, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking Department
1965-1967 Instructor in Art, University of Wisconsin – Stout, Menomonie, WI
Taught: Printmaking, Three-dimensional design, industrial design,
and art appreciation


Juror

1988 National Endowment for the Arts – Mid-Atlantic Foundation
1988 National Endowment for the Arts – Special Projects

 

Awards

1985 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
1984 M-AAA/NEA (Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment
for the Arts)
Fellowship for Visual Artists in Printmaking


Scholarships

1978-1980 Grant for Master Print Workshop
1976 Member – Missouri Council for the Arts


Exhibitions

2006 Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO
  Bruno David gallery, St.Louis MO
2002 Lydon Art, Chicago, IL
  Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1999

Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO

 

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

 

Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE

1996 Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

 

  Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO (one-person)
1995 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
  University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL
  Milliken University, Decatur, IL (one-person)
  Jansen Koos Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
  Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL (one-person)
1994 University of South Dakota
  R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO (one-person)
1993 “Big Print,” University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
  Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
  Drawing Center, New York, NY
  Shed Aquarium, Chicago, IL
  Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1991 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO
1990 Jan Ciciero Gallery, Chicago, IL (one-person)
  Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL Three-person show
1989 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL Group show
  “Galerie Van Mourik,” Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1988 Suwa, Japan
  Nanjing, China
  Joy Moss Gallery, Miami, FL
1986 B.Z. Wagman, St. Louis, MO
  “Currents 32: The Narragansett Bay Series,”
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1985 “Mid-America Arts Alliance/ National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship Winners,”
Traveling exhibition
  “Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition,”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1983 “One of a Kind,” Maryland Art Institute
1980 “Works on Paper,” Missouri Arts Council
  Montclair State, Montclair, NJ
1978 Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1977 Heron School of Art, Artist in Residence
  Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Artist in Residence
  Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Mid-West Artist, Krannert Museum
1975 Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1974 Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1973 The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1972 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1968 San Diego State College, San Diego, CA
1967 Los Angeles County Museum
  University of Kentucky
  University of Minnesota
1967 Wisconsin Printmakers
  New York State University, Invitational, Albany, NY
1966 University of Maine
  American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition
  Walker Art Center, three-man show
  New York State University, Potsdam, NY
  Kansas State Black and White Show
  Brooklyn Museum, NY
1965 Springfield Museum, Springfield, IL
1964 Cooper Union Museum, NY


Collections

Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, MO
Boatman’s Bank, St. Louis, MO
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Commerce Bank, St. Louis, MO
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Europe-Wide I
Joseph Pulitzer. Jr.
Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, MO
Newark Public Library, NJ
Queens College, Queens, NY
Ralston Purina, St. Louis, MO
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
The Seven-Up Company, St. Louis, MO
University of Wisconsin – Stout, WI
The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
United Airlines
United States Steel, NY
United States Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Elvehjem Museum, WI
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
William Gass
Milliken University, Decatur, IL
Beach Museum, Kansas State University, KS
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Ann Janss, Los Angeles, CA

Daum Museum , MO


Books

Allen, Lynne and McGibbon, Phyllis, The Best of Printmaking,
An International Collection Rockport Publishers, Inc., Glouchester, MA, 1997.

45 Contemporary American Printmakers, 1999.