Edward Chavez was born in Wagon Mound, New Mexico. He worked through the depression as one of the most successful WPA muralists, then for the U.S. Army painting murals in mess halls during off duty hours, finally becoming one of many artists to call Woodstock, New York home in the years after World War II. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau and Peppino Mangravite. In 1951 Chavez won a Fulbright Grant allowing him and his wife, artist Jenne Magafan, to paint in Italy for the year. Through the fifties and sixties Chavez remained on the cutting edge of the art scene until the op-art movement redirected popular opinion.
He taught at the Arts Students League of New York and was visiting Professor of Art at Colorado College and Assistant Professor of Art at Syracuse University. Chavez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress Print Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Collection, Detroit Museum of Art and private collections.
Awards: Tiffany Award, 1948; Fulbright Scholarship for Italy, 1951; Childe Hassam Purchase Award, 1953. Murals: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Post Office under Frank Mechau with Jenne Magafan; West High School, Denver, Colorado; Recife, Brazil. Selected exhibitions include one-man exhibition at Denver Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez was an illustrator, muralist, genre and landscape painter, sculptor, and lithographer. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau, Arnold Blanch, and Peppino Mangravite. Before serving in the army during WWII, Chavez painted many murals in the west.
When he was demobilized from the army after WWII, he went to live in Woodstock, New York with his wife, artist Jenne Magafan. A new artistic climate developed in Woodstock after WWII. There was an influx of artists from the West and Midwest in Woodstock. Some of the these artists were Bruce Currie, Fletcher Martin, Edward Millman, Mitchell Siporin, Herman Cherry, Denny Winters, and Jenne Magafan's sister, Ethel Magafan. In 1947, the Art Students League reestablished a summer school in Woodstock, as it had left in 1922. Chavez once remarked that even if he did not find stimulus for painting in Woodstock, he still liked living there.
He taught at the Arts Students League of New York and was visiting Professor of Art at Colorado College and Assistant Professor of Art at Syracuse University. Chavez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress Print Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Collection, Detroit Museum of Art and private collections.
Awards: Tiffany Award, 1948; Fulbright Scholarship for Italy, 1951; Childe Hassam Purchase Award, 1953. Murals: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Post Office under Frank Mechau with Jenne Magafan; West High School, Denver, Colorado; Recife, Brazil. Selected exhibitions include one-man exhibition at Denver Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez was an illustrator, muralist, genre and landscape painter, sculptor, and lithographer. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau, Arnold Blanch, and Peppino Mangravite. Before serving in the army during WWII, Chavez painted many murals in the west.
When he was demobilized from the army after WWII, he went to live in Woodstock, New York with his wife, artist Jenne Magafan. A new artistic climate developed in Woodstock after WWII. There was an influx of artists from the West and Midwest in Woodstock. Some of the these artists were Bruce Currie, Fletcher Martin, Edward Millman, Mitchell Siporin, Herman Cherry, Denny Winters, and Jenne Magafan's sister, Ethel Magafan. In 1947, the Art Students League reestablished a summer school in Woodstock, as it had left in 1922. Chavez once remarked that even if he did not find stimulus for painting in Woodstock, he still liked living there.
Edward Chavez was born in Wagon Mound, New Mexico. He worked through the depression as one of the most successful WPA muralists, then for the U.S. Army painting murals in mess halls during off duty hours, finally becoming one of many artists to call Woodstock, New York home in the years after World War II. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau and Peppino Mangravite. In 1951 Chavez won a Fulbright Grant allowing him and his wife, artist Jenne Magafan, to paint in Italy for the year. Through the fifties and sixties Chavez remained on the cutting edge of the art scene until the op-art movement redirected popular opinion.
He taught at the Arts Students League of New York and was visiting Professor of Art at Colorado College and Assistant Professor of Art at Syracuse University. Chavez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress Print Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Collection, Detroit Museum of Art and private collections.
Awards: Tiffany Award, 1948; Fulbright Scholarship for Italy, 1951; Childe Hassam Purchase Award, 1953. Murals: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Post Office under Frank Mechau with Jenne Magafan; West High School, Denver, Colorado; Recife, Brazil. Selected exhibitions include one-man exhibition at Denver Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez was an illustrator, muralist, genre and landscape painter, sculptor, and lithographer. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau, Arnold Blanch, and Peppino Mangravite. Before serving in the army during WWII, Chavez painted many murals in the west.
When he was demobilized from the army after WWII, he went to live in Woodstock, New York with his wife, artist Jenne Magafan. A new artistic climate developed in Woodstock after WWII. There was an influx of artists from the West and Midwest in Woodstock. Some of the these artists were Bruce Currie, Fletcher Martin, Edward Millman, Mitchell Siporin, Herman Cherry, Denny Winters, and Jenne Magafan's sister, Ethel Magafan. In 1947, the Art Students League reestablished a summer school in Woodstock, as it had left in 1922. Chavez once remarked that even if he did not find stimulus for painting in Woodstock, he still liked living there.
He taught at the Arts Students League of New York and was visiting Professor of Art at Colorado College and Assistant Professor of Art at Syracuse University. Chavez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress Print Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Collection, Detroit Museum of Art and private collections.
Awards: Tiffany Award, 1948; Fulbright Scholarship for Italy, 1951; Childe Hassam Purchase Award, 1953. Murals: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Post Office under Frank Mechau with Jenne Magafan; West High School, Denver, Colorado; Recife, Brazil. Selected exhibitions include one-man exhibition at Denver Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez was an illustrator, muralist, genre and landscape painter, sculptor, and lithographer. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau, Arnold Blanch, and Peppino Mangravite. Before serving in the army during WWII, Chavez painted many murals in the west.
When he was demobilized from the army after WWII, he went to live in Woodstock, New York with his wife, artist Jenne Magafan. A new artistic climate developed in Woodstock after WWII. There was an influx of artists from the West and Midwest in Woodstock. Some of the these artists were Bruce Currie, Fletcher Martin, Edward Millman, Mitchell Siporin, Herman Cherry, Denny Winters, and Jenne Magafan's sister, Ethel Magafan. In 1947, the Art Students League reestablished a summer school in Woodstock, as it had left in 1922. Chavez once remarked that even if he did not find stimulus for painting in Woodstock, he still liked living there.
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