John ross printmaker biography of michaels
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John Ross () was a printmaker, illustrator, painter, author and a teacher of art....
John Ross, painter, printmaker, author, and educator, was born in New York City on September 25, He studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York from to with Morris Kantor and Will Barnet, and received his Bachelor in Fine Arts degree.
He attended Parson School of Design in New York in , and, in Ross studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France. He returned to New York in , where he furthered his art studies at the New School for Social Research under Antonio Frasconi and Louis Schanker, and at Columbia University.
In Ross took a position as Professor of studio art at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where he remained until He designed the BFA program and served as chair of the art department from to He also taught printmaking at the New School University in New York City for over fifty years, and produced nineteen artist's books which were published by The High Tide Press, as well as The Complete Collagraph (), The Complete Screen Print and