French RayH

American visual artist who excelled in creating engravings, etchings, embossings, graphic constructions, watercolours, pastels, and metal and Plexiglas sculptures. Frenchs 1949 engraving Porcupine was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1949. Frenchs 1959 etching Enchantment was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1960 and received the Pennell Purchase Prize from the Library of Congress the same year. He attended the John Herron School of Art and received his Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa under professor and artist Mauricio Lasansky. While French studied, travelled, and exhibited nationally and internationally, he remained dedicated to his home state of Indiana, which served as a strong artistic inspiration to him. In addition to his artistic career, French was also on the faculty of DePauw University from 1948 to 1984. Following his retirement from university service, French continued to create artwork in his private studio until his death in Greencastle, Indiana on 21 April 2000, aged 80. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less