biografia di Paul Leland THOMPSON (1911-1993)
Birth place: Buffalo, IA
Addresses: Washington, DC; Plainfield, NJ
Profession: Painter, craftsperson
Studied: Calif. Sch. FA; Corcoran Sch. Art; Heinrich Pfieffer, Provincetown, MA
Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1945; Honolulu Acad. Art, 1936 (prize); SAM, 1937, 1939; Soc. Wash. Artists,1944-46 (prize, 1946); Landscape Club Wash., 1945 (prize), 1946; Int. Gal., Wash., DC, 1946 (solo); Wash. Pub. Lib., 1946; CPLH Nat. Exh., San Fran., 1949; Nat. Watercolor Exh., NAD, 1956; AC Oranges, 1957 (first prize for watercolor); Statewide Exh., Hunterdon Co. AC, 1964-67, 1972 (first prize for oil painting, 1964; second prize for oil painting, 1967); Barton Barry Gal., Scotch Plains, NJ, 1970s.
Member: Soc. Wash. Artists; Landscape Club Wash.; Artists Equity NY; Artists Equity NJ; NJWCS; Hunterdon Co. AC; Plainfield AA
Work: Marine Ins. Co, Pittsburgh, PA; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Rutherford, NJ. Commissions: two murals, Shiloh Baptist Church, Plainfield, NJ, 1957.
Comments: Preferred media: oils, acrylics, watercolors.
Sources: WW73; WW47