- Roger Medearis
Roger Medearis (1920-2001) was an American Regionalist painter. He was a student of
Thomas Hart Benton while at theKansas City Art Institute in the late 1930s and took up the technique of egg tempera painting, a rediscovered medium popular with Regionalists. Benton introduced Medearis to theAssociated American Artists Gallery inNew York City , from which he sold a portrait of his grandmother, "Godly Susan", now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.After
World War II , Regionalist art fell out of fashion, replaced byAbstract Expressionism . Unable to sell his works, Medearis stopped painting. In 1966,Philip Desind , aMaryland art dealer, discovered Medearis' work and encouraged him to return to painting. Medearis painted new works until his death in 2001.Medearis' paintings and lithographs can be found in the collections of the
Butler Institute of American Art , theKemper Museum of Contemporary Art , theNelson-Atkins Museum of Art , and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
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