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Jeanet Dreskin

Occupation: Painter, Educator
Media: Goauche; Watercolor; Collage.
Born New Orleans, La, September 29, 1921.
Education
Newcomb Coll, Tulane Univ, with Will Henry Stevens, BFA, 42. John Hopkins Univ, medical art certification, 43. John McCrady Sch, New Orleans. Clemson Univ, MFA, 73. Art Students League, New York.

Teaching Positions
Painting & graphics, Greenville Co Mus Sch Art, 50-52 & 62-, head sch, 68-74; adjunct professor art, Univ South Carolina, 73-96, Governor's Sch, 81-2000.

Business and Professional Positions
Staff artist, America Mus Nat Hist, New York, 43-45; staff artist, Univ Chicago Med Sch, 45-50.

Commissioned Works
Seals & plaque, South Carolina State Bd Health, Columbia, 57; McDonald Corp, Chicago, 82; painting, Nat Mus Illus, New York, 86; Federal Reserve Bank Richmond, Charlotte, 88; Greenville Hosp System, South Carolina, 2007.

Public Works
Smithsonian Nat Mus Art, Washington, DC; Georgia Mus Art, Athens; Greenville Co Mus Art, South Carolina; Guild Hall Mus, East Hampton, New York; State Art Collection, South Carolina State Mus, Columbia; Gibbes Mus, Charleston, South Carolina; Zimmerli Mus, Rutgers Univ, New Jersey.

Exhibitions
Greenville Co Mus of Art, 62, 64, 70, 75, 85, 99 & 2005; Group exhibs, Chautauqua Exhib America Art, New York, 70; 38th Ann Mid-Yr Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 74 & 83; Art in Medicine, Nat Mus Illus, New York, 86; Nat Print & Drawing Exhib, Rudolph Lee Gallery, Clemson Univ, South Carolina, 87, 89, 91, 93, 2002 & 2005; Centennial Exhib (traveling), Nat Association Women Artists, 89-90, Invitational Drawing Exhib USA, Mid America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri, 89-91; Nat Women's Exhib, India, 89-90; Nat Works on Paper, Univ Miss, Oxford, Miss, 91; 100 Years/100 Artists, South Carolina State Mus, 99-2008.

Bibliography
Jack A Morris, Jr (author), Contemporary Artists of South Carolina, Tricentennial Comn, 70; Patricia Robbins (author), Jeanet Dreskin, Art Voices S, 5-6/79; Feature, Art's the Thing, South Carolina Education TV, 87; Martha Severens (curator), Greenville County Museum of Art Catalogue, 99; and others.

Publications
Illusr, Anatomy of the Gorilla, America Mus Nat Hist, Columbia Univ, 43-46; What's New, Abbot Labs (& Latin America editor), 46, 47 & 49; Surgery of Repair, Lippincott, 50; Williams Obstetrics, Stander-Appleton, 50; Surgical Anatomy, British Columbia Decker (Mosby), 90; many others.

Honors and Awards
Merit Award, Int Grand Prix, Cannes, France, 73; Award, Southern Watercolor, Univ Miss, 85, 88, 97, & 08; Merit Award, San Diego Int Watercolor, 97; America Soc Contemporary Artists Award, New York, 97, 2000 & 2002; South Carolina Gov's Sch Arts & Humanities, Lifetime Achievement Award, 98; The Gov's Award for the Arts, 2004; Elizabeth Verner Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004.

Memberships
Guild South Carolina Artists (member board, 55-, treasurer, 68, vice president, 71, president, 72); Nat Association Women Artists (member comt, 71-); South Carolina Watercolor Soc (president, 83-84); Nat Association Med Illusr; Southern Graphics Coun (secy-treas, 74-76, treasurer, 88-90, member board, 74-92); plus others.

Dealers
Hampton III Gallery Ltd 11 Hampton Center Taylors South Carolina 29687.

Address
60 Lake Forest Dr Greenville South Carolina 29609

Email: jeanet@dreskin.net


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