John Charles Terelak (born 1942) is an
American Impressionist
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
artist known for painting scenes of
New England.
Personal life
John Terelak was born in 1942 in
Boston,
Massachusetts,
["John Terelak"]
InternationalMastersOfFineArt.com, n.d. and entered the
Vesper George School of Art
The Vesper George School of Art was a school in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1924 and closed in 1983.
History
The school namesake and founder was (1865–1934) a painter, born in Boston. The campus had been located at 44 Sa ...
in 1960, becoming an instructor there after graduating.
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BestArtOfAmerica.com, n.d. In 1975 he founded the Gloucester Academy of Fine Art.
He was a president of the
New England Watercolor Society The New England Watercolor Society, originally named the Boston Watercolor Society, is an artist-run organization formed to promote and exhibit work by watercolor painters. It was also at one time known as the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters. ...
.
Collections
His paintings are included in collections including: the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Sheraton Corporation, Winthrop Financial Corporation, Prudential Insurance Company, Bank of Boston, Shawmut Bank, State Street Bank, Boston, and the Sterling-Regal Publishing Company.
His works have been included in exhibitions at The
National Academy of Design, The
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
, The Springfield Museum, and The Butler Museum, among others.
References
External links
Terelak.com(official site)
"John Terelak" The Guild of Boston Artists capsule biography
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American artists
1942 births
Living people