William Firschein exhibited widely and with success throughout the 1950s and 60s including at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 10th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings (1960). In 1968, he was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship that enabled him to live for a year in the New Hampshire countryside where he worked and painted in the Cheney Studio. William Firschein was represented by Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles and the his archives are held in the repository of New York's Guggenheim Museum. The artist's work is held in public and private collections including the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
William Firschein
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
MacDowell Fellowships: 1968
Studios
Cheney
William Firschein worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…