Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Jack Vallee

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963
Jack Vallee (1921-1986) painted landscapes and seascapes mainly in Oklahoma and Maine. He was born and educated in Wichita Falls, Texas, graduating from Hardin Junior College. After five years of service in the U.S. Marines during World War II, he went to New York where he studied painting for five years at the Art Students League under instructors such as Howard Trafton, Reginald Marsh of the famous "Ash Can" group, and Frank Vincent DuMond.

Studios

New Hampshire

Jack Vallee worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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