Jack Stewart (artist)

Jack Stewart was an American artist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he began private art lessons when he was seven. When he was about nine he went to classes at the High Museum of Art. In his early to midteens he apprenticed to the sculptorpainter Steffen Thomas. During WWII he served in Pattons Third Army as a combat infantryman, entering combat in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he earned a BFA degree at Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning. He studied architecture at Columbia University and later earned MA and Ph.D. degrees at New York University. In 1976 Stewart married painter and art administrator Regina Serniak Stewart. His first wife and their son are deceased.

Stewarts work has been written about, quoted, and reproduced in many publications including Born in the Streets Graffiti, Fondation Cartier pour lart Contemporain, 2009 Graffitins Historia by Malcolm Jacobson, Sweden, 2011 365 Graffiti, by Jay J.SON Edlin amp Andrew Zephyr Witten, Abrams, 2011 Art in the Streets, Jeffrey Deitch, et al., Skira RizzoliMOCA, 2011 Graffiti une Histoire en Images by Bernard Fontaine, Eyrolles, Paris, France, 2011 Classic Hits New York Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers by Alan Fleisher amp Paul Lovino, Dokument Press, Sweden, 2012.

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