Guy Maccoy (1904 - 1981) was an American artist known for his

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Biography

Maccoy was born on October 7, 1904 in

Valley Falls, Kansas Valley Falls is a city in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,092. History Valley Falls was originally called Grasshopper Falls, from the falls in the Grasshopper River (now known as ...

. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, the

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in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the

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. For a time he worked at the

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

. He was married to fellow artist Genoi Pettit (1894-1982). In the 1940s Maccoy's work was included in several of the Dallas Museum of Art exhibitions of the

National Serigraph Society The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs bei ...

. In 1947 Maccoy moved to

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where he taught at the Otis Art Institute and was a founder of the Western Serigraph Society. He died on March 18, 1981 in Los Angeles. Maccoy's work is in the collection of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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Oral history interview with Guy and Genoi Pettit Maccoy, 1965 July 24
{{Authority control 1904 births 1981 deaths American muralists American printmakers Federal Art Project artists Kansas City Art Institute alumni People from Valley Falls, Kansas