John "Jack" Marshall was an American artist best known for his sculptures.

Biography

Marshall was born in

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, on February 27, 1932, son of Francis J. and Josephine (Ghigli) Marshall. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years as a linguistic specialist and was honorably discharged June 5, 1951. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in design from the Massachusetts College of Art. He obtained a graduate degree from Boston University in studio arts and one from the Yale School of Architecture in environmental design and installation art on a full scholarship. He died on July 7, 2009, at his home in Keene, New Hampshire, at the age of 77.

Achievements

Marshall held patents for the “Foam Method of Cementitious Casting” and “A Fiber-Optic Perception Device.” His awards include: first place award in sculpture: New Haven and Providence Arts Festivals, four prizes for sculpture at The New England Annuals Arts and Crafts Festival at Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut, the Olivetti Award for Contemporary Sculpture and a Ford Foundation Purchase Award. He also received grants from: Blanche Coleman Foundation,

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, Spaulding-Potter Foundation, Thorne-Sagendorph Trust,

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Corp., Union Carbide Corp., the American Society of Plastics Engineers and the Comune di Santa Croce sull’Arno for a traveling exhibit throughout Tuscany. Marshall's works have been shown regionally at the Fuller Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts,

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in Lincoln, Massachusetts, Baak Gallery in Cambridge, and Carl Siembab, Sunne Savage and Ellie Reiglehaupt Galleries on Newbury Street in Boston; in New York City at the Whitney Biennial, the Awards Exhibit of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the

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, Lever House, The New School,

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and most recently in a solo show at Ward Nasse Gallery in

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. In Europe he has had shows in Milan,

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, Florence, Copenhagen, Geneva and Zurich. His work is in numerous collections, many of which are monumental commissions: public and private in this country and internationally. He recently retired professor emeritus from teaching after almost 30 years as director of 3-D Studies at Keene State College, prior to which he had taught at the schools of Art and Architecture at Yale, the

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and Manhattanville College. He had studios in Keene, New Hampshire, and

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References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, John 1932 births 2009 deaths Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni Yale School of Architecture alumni Yale University faculty Manhattanville University faculty People from Quincy, Massachusetts The New School faculty 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors