Jack Stewart (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jack Stewart (artist)

American artist

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 04-Mar-2005

Profession: artist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jack Stewart (January 27, 1926 – March 4, 2005) was an American artist.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he began private art lessons when he was seven.
When he was about nine he went to classes at the High Museum of Art.
In his early to mid-teens he apprenticed to the sculptor/painter Steffen Thomas.
During WWII he served in Patton's Third Army as a combat infantryman, entering combat in the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war he earned a BFA degree at Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning.
He studied architecture at Columbia University and later earned MA and Ph.D.
degrees at New York University.
In 1976 Stewart married painter and art administrator Regina Serniak Stewart.
His first wife and their son are deceased. Stewart moved to New York City in 1949.
His first solo painting exhibit was in 1950 at the George Binet Gallery.
During the 1950s he showed with Charles Egan, Joseph Grippi, and Richard Waddell.
During that time he also founded the Stewart-Marean Gallery and The Stewart Studio, which was established for the design and execution of his commissioned mosaic furnishings and murals.
Many of his furniture pieces were featured in Furniture Forum.
He was an accomplished educator, art administrator, and the first to photograph and document the New York City Subway graffiti movement, from its beginning, in his definitive work Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s.