Gerald Garston

Gerald Drexler Garston (May 4, 1925 - April 5, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker who lived in Connecticut. Garston is known for his works of sports figures and mythical paintings of baseball.

Education

• Studied at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
• Student of painter/sculptor Karl Metzler, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Student of printer Louis Boucher and printmaker Harry Sternberg, Arts Student League, New York, New York
• Student of Josef Albers, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Exhibitions

Gartson's exhibitions include numerous solo and group exhibitions at locations including New York, Boston, and Connecticut.^[1] His best-known work, "Pastime," which depicts a baseball player holding an American flag, was the centerpiece of "Diamonds are Forever," the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition of baseball art.^[2]

Museum collections

• DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
• William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Publications

A Monograph, The Art of Gerald Garston: A Good Life in Your Eyes with an essay by: Alicia Currier Kallay, Foreword by: Bud Collins was published in 2005 ^[3]

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