biographie de John GRILLO (1917-2014)

Birth place: Lawrence, MA

Addresses: Amherst, MA

Profession: Abstract painter, printmaker, sculptor

Studied: Hartford Art School, 1935-38; Calif. School FA, 1946, Albert M. Bender fellowship, 1947; Hofmann School, 1949-50.

Exhibited: Butler IA, 1964; New School Social Res., 1967 (solo); State Univ. Iowa, 1967 (solo); Simmons College, 1968 (solo); Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, 1968 (solo); Benedict AC, St. Joseph, MN, 1969 (solo); Sacramento State Fair (prize); WMAA. Other awards: Ford Foundation fellowship to Tamarind Lithography Workshops; Samuel S. Bender Award for Painting

Work: LACMA; Newark (NJ) Mus.; Guggenheim Mus. Butler IA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Comments: Active in Provincetown, MA, 1949-on. Teaching: Southern Illinois Univ., 1960; School Visual Arts, 1961; Univ. Calif, Berkeley, 1962-63; New School Social Res., 1964-66; Pratt Inst., 1964-66; Univ. Iowa, 1967-; Univ. Massachusetts, 1968-69.

Sources: WW73; Modernism in California Printmaking," (Nov. 1998, Annex Galleries); Provincetown Painters, 218"