Frank Metz Landscape Artist
Frank Metz - Biography
  Birthplace:
Philadelphia, PA 1925

Education:
Philadelphia Museum School: 1943-1949
Art Student's League, New York City: 1948
New School for Social Research, New York City: 1949 - 1950
Atelier 17, Paris France: 1949 - 1950

One Artist Shows:
Parma Galley, New York City: 1955, 1958
Roko Gallery, New York City: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966
Alonzo Gallery, New York City: 1974, 1977, 1979
Haber Theodore Gallery, New York City: 1984, 1985
Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia: 1985, 1987
Minor Memorial Library, Roxbury CT: 2005

Two-Artists Shows:
Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC: 1961
The Washington Art Association, Washington CT: 1971
The Sea Breeze Gallery, Block Island, RI: 1980
Vered International Gallery, Easthampton, NY: 1981, 1982
Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, NY: 1999

Selected Group Shows:
Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA: 1974, 1949
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA: 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953
Print Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY: 1948
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY: 1952
"The Little International Exhibition" of Thirteen European and American Artists,
  sponsored by The Olsen Foundation of Connecticut: 1956
Ellen Donovan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: 1952
Exchange Exhibition of Canadian and American Painters, Montreal, Canada: 1956
New England Drawing Show, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT: 1960
"The Paul Magriel Collection of American Drawing", Butler Institute of American Art
   Youngstown, OH: 1962 Annual New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild of Artists: 1962, 1963
Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State Teacher's College, Muncie, IN: 1962 - 1965
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK: 1963
First Bucknell Annual Drawing Exhibition: 1965
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Childe Hassam Fund Show, New York, NY: 1966
  Selected Group Shows (cont.):
"American Landscape: A Living Tradition", Perodot Gallery: 1966
Joe de Mers Gallery, Hilton Head SC: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
Alonzo Gallery, New York, NY: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977
Alonzo Gallery, Haines, NY: 1974
"Works on Paper", Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA: 1974
"Artists from Monhegan", Allentown Museum of Art, PA: 1974
Elca London Gallery, Montreal, Canada: 1980
"Regarding the Sky", Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY: 1986
"The Art of the Classical Watercolor", Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY: 1986
"The Landscape", Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: 1989
"From the Landscape", Washington Art Association, Washington, CT: 1996: 1989
The Independents Crosscurrents in Contemporary Art - 499 Park Ave: March 2006

Selected Collections:
Forbes Magazine
Ball State Teacher's College
Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby
Philadelphia Museum of Art
AT&T
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Bank (JP Morgan Chase)
Mr. Paul Magriel
The Olsen Foundation
Charles Pfizer Co.
Lessing J. Rosenwald
  Simon & Schuster (Viacom)
Marione Midland Bank
Anderson Consulting
Deutsche Bank
IBM
Nynex (Verizon)
Dupont Co., Wilmington, DE
UNUM, Portland, ME
Himont Co., Wilmington, DE
Price Waterhouse, New York
Openheimer Fund

Awards:
Elizabeth Ball Purchase Award for Drawings, Ball State College: 1964
Regional Juried, Mixed Media, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT,
  First Prize: 1970, 1971, 1974

Publications:
"Frank Metz Landscape Drama", American Artist: March 1978
"20 Oil Painter's and How They Work", Watson-Guptil Publications: 1984
ARTnews: April 1984
Arts Magazine: April 1985
"Art of the Maine Islands", Down East Books: 1997