Discipline: Visual Art

Jeanette Fintz

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1978

Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, arts writer and curator, she resides and paints in Surprise, New York in the upper Hudson River Valley. Fintz was born in Brooklyn, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. She has exhibited her work internationally, starting in 1979 in New York.


She received her M.F.A. from Boston University S.F.A. (1975 ), and her B.A. from Queens College CUNY(1972). She attended the New York Studio School ( 1972-73) and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975. In 2008 she received The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award for Painting given by the National Academy of Design


Studios

New Hampshire

Jeanette Fintz 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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