1. Byron Gordon McKeeby was an American artist, educator and master printmaker known primarily for lithography.
14 Facts About Byron McKeeby
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Byron McKeeby was active in all form of print exhibition.
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Byron McKeeby built a full scope printmaking department of rank at the University of Tennessee that exists today.
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McKeeby, son of Byron J and Miriam McKeeby, was born on February 27,1936, in Humboldt, Iowa, later growing up in Cedar Rapids, IA.
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Byron McKeeby's youth was enriched by his mother's interest in art, particularly Rosa Bonheur.
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Years later in a Coe College interview Byron McKeeby acknowledged that Cone was "an extraordinary human, and a lasting influence on his life".
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Subsequently, Byron McKeeby earned a Master of Fine Arts at Tulane University studying with innovative printmaker Jim Steg, it was there his interest and rising success as a lithographer was realized.
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Byron McKeeby was awarded a Tamarind Institute Artist-Teacher Fellow in 1965 where he was mentored by Garo Antreasian deepening his interest and expertise in Lithography.
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The guiding principles of the Tamarind Institute of creating master artist-printers, embracing diversity of style and fostering collaboration were employed in Fall of 1965 when Byron McKeeby joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Art Department.
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In support of this Byron McKeeby hosted workshops with academic and professional printmakers, such as Donald Saff, for student benefit.
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Byron McKeeby's interest spanned social issues, the natural world, language and through his personal use of imagery he achieved humor and satire.
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Career-long Byron McKeeby was active in exhibit competition and shown by invitation, his record was regional, national and international; he was awarded the Chairman's Prize at the 1983 International Biennial Print Exhibit ROC in Taipei, Taiwan.
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An artist's artist, a teacher's teacher, as a totally committed colleague, Byron McKeeby had few equals.
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Byron McKeeby selected this invitational show on those same principles - choosing people who are equally engaged in their art as demonstrated through the quality of what they produce.