Stephen Derrickson grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and earned his B.F.A. at Ohio University where he studied with Dennis Adams. He holds a graduate degree in painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia where he studied with Italo Scanga, David Pease, and Stephen Greene. Derrickson was an assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin from 1977 to 1984, where he taught painting, drawing, and 20th century art history and exhibited his work regionally. From Texas he moved to New York City where he continued to paint and draw and exhibit his work in L.A. and San Francisco, as well as New York. In 1995 he moved his family to the lower Hudson River Valley. He now lives in Rosendale, New York with his son Evan. In addition to his continued painting, he runs a decorative wall finishes business, promotes green energy, and is a practicing Shambhala Buddhist.
Steve Derrickson
Studios
New Hampshire
Steve Derrickson 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…