Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists.
 Artist Mary Joan Waid creates colorful still lifes in oil. and pastels.
Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents works by strong regional and national contemporary artists.  Artist Mary Joan Waid creates colorful still lifes in oil. and pastels., as well as some mixed media.
Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists. Artist Mary Joan Waid creates colorful still lifes in oil. and pastels.
Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists. Glass Artist Mary Joan Waid is a frequent exhibitor.

Artist Mary Joan Waid

 

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Precarious Order
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At Spring’s Casement
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Veiled
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Dogwood Shadow
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Winter Alchemy
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Southern Comfort
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Peonies Forever
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Voluptuous
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August
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Easy Living
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Zinnias
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EDUCATION
  1961   B.F.A. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
      Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
  2003   "Perennials," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  2002   "Small Works," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO (two person show)
  2001   "A Summer Garden," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  2000   "Pastels," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1999   "Hushed Moments," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1998   "Then and Now," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1997   "Realite," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Portraits," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1996   G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1994   The Gallery, State Theater Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1993   Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Beilefeld, Germany
  1990   G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1989   G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1988   "Mary Joan Waid: Recent Works", Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
  1987   G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1985   Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL
  1983   Signet Arts, St. Louis, MO
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1982   Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galleries, Zurich, Switzerland
  1981   Pima College, Tuscon, AZ
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
  1979   Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Contemporary, Houston, TX
  1978   Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
  1977   Fishbach Gallery, New York, NY
  1975   Rush Rhees Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY
  1973   Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, New York, NY
  1970   Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  2005   "Stillness," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Body Human," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Palm Beach Contemporary," Nohra Haime Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"In the Back Room," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  2004   "Past, Present, Future," Okaloosa-Walton Art Center, Niceville, FL
"In the Back Room," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Art of the Twentieth Century," The Armory, New York, NY
  2003   "Atrium at the Plaza," St. Louis, MO
"Portraits of Winter," Connecticut Society of Portrait Painters, Greenwich, CT
"New Acquisitions," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Peter Burega, Judy Pfaff and Mary Joan Waid," Ameringer Yohe, Boca Raton, FL
"Art Palm Beach," Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
  2002   "Scale It," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Art is Art," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Art Palm Beach," Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"The Emprise Bank Collection, Multiple Personalities: 1954-1970,"Edwin A.Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
"Painterly Painting," Nils Rykken Gallery
  2001   "All Wichita: Part One," Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS
"Selections," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"I Love NY Benefit," New York, NY
"The Heart of Art," Fuller Building, New York, NY
  2000   "Recycled Paper III," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Realism Today," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Celebrating Yadda Artists," Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  1999   "Millenium Madness," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Into the New Century," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Recycled Paper II," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium," Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Republic Plaza Building
"Equilibrium of the Senses," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"The Use of the Hand," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1998   "Recycled Paper," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Self-Portrait," Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
"Still Life Painting Today," Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
"Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Accrochage," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Self-Revelation: Artistic Confrontation," Krasdale Galelry, White Plains, NY
  1997   "Works on Paper, With Paper and Drawings by Gallery Artists", Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"The Power of Color," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  1996   "Realism", Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
"Selected America Drawings, 1945-1995," Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, April 7-June 23, 1996
  1995   Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
"Director’s Choice", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  1994   "Town and Country", General Electric, New York, organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Flowers !!!", Babcock Galleries, New York
"Director’s Choice", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
  1993   "Self-Portrait: The Changing Self", New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
"Contemporary Art: Japan, USA", Takamatsu Museum, Shikoku, and Ohji City Art Center Gallery, Kobe City, Japan
"Still Life, 1963-1993", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Director’s Choice", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  1992   "Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma", Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
"Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life", HBO Corporate Headquarters, New York, NY
"Small Work: Personal Choices", G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
  1991   "Picturing Families", Wilson Art Center. Rochester, NY
"Aqua Pura: Images of Water in Contemporary Art", HBO, Inc. New York, NY
"Beyond the Picturesque, Landscape on Paper", G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
  1990   "In Bloom", Pfizer Inc., New York, NY organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"Collector’s Show (Director’s Choice)", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
"165th Annual Exhibition", National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"Of Woman", Katzen-Brown Gallery, New York, NY
  1989   "Portraits", Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
"Positive I.D.", Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
"Evening Skies: Artist’s Interpretations of the Cosmos", The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
  1988   "88 for 89", G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
  1987   Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
"Contemporary Still Life", DFS Dorland Worldwide, Inc., New York, NY, organized by the Contemporary Arts Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Pastel Anthology II," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
"Studied From Life," Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
"Close Focus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs," The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
"Artists in Their Own Image", Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY
  1986   "Self Portraits, Gallery Artists and Friends", G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
"From The Collection of Centurion Andre emmerich", The centurion Association, New York, NY
  1983   "Made In America: 200 years of Drawing", Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  1982   "46th Annual Midyear Show", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
"Large Format Drawings", G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
"100 Years of Still Life Painting: 1882-1982", Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
"Arts On Paper...Since 1960", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
"Realist Painting: People and Objects in Women’s Lives", Marymount Manhattan College as part of "Views of Women Artists", New York
"Views of Women Artists," Marymount Manhatten College, NY
  1981   "Image-Self Image", Pace University, New York
"Self-Portrait", Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York
"Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Fund Exhibition", National Academy of Design, New York
  1980   "An American Flower Show", Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, MA
  1979   "Mary Joan Waid, Judith Berman, Jinx Nolan", Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA
Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY
  1978   Fishbach Gallery, New York, NY
Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  1977   "Collectors Gallery", Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
  1976   "Invitational Drawing Show", 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawing Today in New York", Organized and circulated by Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; travelling to Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

AWARDS
      Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY: 1979, 1981, 1988
MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH: 1985
Purchase Award, Henry Ward Ranger Fund, National Academy of Design, New York, NY: 1981

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
      Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
New York College, CUNY, New York, NY

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
      American Telephone & Telegraph, Bedminster, NJ
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
British Petroleum America Inc., Cleveland, OH
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Citicorp, New York, NY
Commerce Bank, Kansas City, MO
Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS
Metropolitan Life Insurance, New York, NY
Morrison and Foerster, New York, NY
Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, AR
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Xerox Corporation, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
      Allison, Michael. Positive I.D., The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, March 31- June 4, 1989, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Alloway, Lawrence. Paintings and Pastels, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY, September 27-October 22, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Anderson, Phil, "Made in America," A.R.T.S., Minneapolis, June 1983.
Arthur, John. Still Life 1963-1993., Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, August 6 - September 12, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Balka, Sigmund R. Self-Revelation: Artistic Confrontation, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY, January 15- April 15, 1998, exhibition brochure.
Beldon, Dorothy. "Artist Takes a Close Look at Her Growing Still Lives," The Wichita Eagle and Beacon, Wichita, January 22, 1978, p.2c, illustrated.
Cohen, Ronny. "Large-Scale Close-Up Drawings," Drawing¨, New York, Vol. VII, No. 4, November-December 1985, pp. 78-83, illustrated.
"Reviews: Mary Joan Waid," Artforum, New York, May 1987, illustrated.
"Large Format Drawings, Artnews, New York, October 1982, p.166, illustrated.
Cyphers, Peggy. "Reviews: Mary Joan Waid," Arts Magazine, New York, January 1991, pp.100-101, illustrated.
Daniel, Jeff, "Contrast Within Contrast Creates Startling Exhibit," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 28, 1997, p.23, illustrated.
Doherty, M. Stephen. "Painting Autobiographical Still-Lifes: Mary Joan Waid", American Artist, New York, May 1991, pp.52-55, illustrated.
"Painting Atobigraphical Still-Lifes", Oil Highlights, Still Life, 1995, illustrated.
Enstice, Wayne and Peters, Melody. Drawing: Space, Form, And Expression, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996, pp. 185-186. Illustrated b/w, p. 186.
Gamwell, Lynn. Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind, Cornell University Press, State University of New York, Binghampton, 2000, p. 286.
Gassert, Sigmar. "Im Dialog mit sich selbest," Basler Zeitung. Basel, September 27, 1982, p.43, illustrated.
Good, Joan. Self-Portrait: The Changing Self. New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, April 2 - May 30, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Gray, Peter. Psychology, Worth Publishers, Inc., New York, 1991 Part 1: opener, opposite p.1, color illustrated.
Henry, Gerrit, "New York Reviews: Mary Joan Waid," Artnews, December, 1983.
"New York Reviews: Mary Joan Waid," Artnews, September, 1998, p.168.
Hn.,R. "Not Vital, Mary Joan Waid", Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurich, September 11, 1982, p.42.
Horne, David. "Views off-center, but Waid right on target," The Arizona Daily Star, Tuscon, March 1, 1981.
Killer, Peter. "Not Vital, Mary Joan Waid," Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, September 11, 1982.
King, Mary. "Waid’s Details of Women in Paintings, Pastels," Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, June 15, 1983.
L., P.K. "Mary Joan Waid," Art /World, New York, January 18 - February 15, 1979, p.8.
Landis, Ellen J., Bernard Barryte, Selma Reuben Holo and Peter Frank. Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium. The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Menninger Perspective, Volume 22, no. 2, 1991, Topeka, KS, p. 24-25, color illustration.
Menninger Perspective, Volume 25, no. 2, 1994, Topeka, KS, p. 18, color illustration.
Menninger Perspective, Volume 25, no. 4, 1991, Topeka, KS, p. 16-17, color illustration.
Meyerwitz, Jacob. "Personal Perspectives shared by artists at States’ Gallery," The Express-Times, Phillipsburg, PA.
Millis, Christopher. "Defying Expectations: Six Exhibits," Artspeak, New York, February 1985, p.15.
"Mary Joan Waid," Arts Magazine, New York, February 1985, p.15, illustrated.
Moore, Sylvia. "Mary Joan Waid," The Feminist Art Journal, New York, Summer 1977.
Moorman, Margaret, "Mary Joan Waid: Then and Now," Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC, 1998.
Moser, Charlotte. "Waid paintings return romantic view to nature," Houston Chronicle, Houston, August 4, 1979, illustrated.
Moss, E. Lynne. "The Sense of Still Life," American Artist, New York, June 2001, p. 18.
Neuvillate, Alfonso de. "Espejos florales: Realidad congelada," Casas y Gente, Mexico, June 1998, p. 14, illustrated.
"Mary Joan Waid y Michael Funk," Casas y Gente, Mesico, December 1999- January 2000, p. 14, illustrated.
O’Beil, Hedy. "Mary Joan Waid," Arts Magazine, New York, February 1982, illustrated.
Pover, Bonnie Bird. Evening Skies: Artists’ Interpretations of the Cosmos, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NY, exhibition fold out, illustrated.
Rosenzweig, Mark R., Leiman, Arnold L. And Breedlove, S. Marc. Biological Psychology, Sinauer Publishers, Sunderland, MA, 1999, p. 324, color illustration.
Rubin, Michael G. "Mary Joan Waid expolres potential of portraiture," St. Louis Globe Democrat, St. Louis, June 11-12, 1983, p.12C.
Schroeder, Ivy. The Riverfront Times, "Realism Today", August 8-15, 2000.
Smith, P.C. "Mary Joan Waid at G.W. Einstein," Art in America, New York, July 1994.
Spencer, Howard DaLee. Mary Joan Waid: Recent Works. Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, October 23 - November 27, 1988, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Stewart, Doug. "The Portraitist’s Dilemma," Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, July 1988, pp.43-50, illustrated.
Strecker, Von Manfred. "Gesichter in Nahsicht," Neue Westfalenblatt, Bielfeld, Germany, April 19, 1993, illustrated.
"Existenzanganste und visionare Landschaften," Westfalenblatt, Biefeld, Germany, April 20, 1993, illustrated.
Wolff, Theodore F. "Pastels that show why the medium deserves respect," The Christian Science Monitor, September 30, 1987, pp.21-22.
Wright, John, "The Shape of the World," River Front Times, August 6-12, 1997.
Zimmer, William. "Artists Turn the Brush on Themselves," The New York Times, New York, May 1993, p.10.
"Winter Flowers," Soho News, New York, January 25-31, 1979, illustrated.
"Recognizing Self-Portraits by Americans," The New York Times, New York, Westchester Edition, February 8, 1998, p. 20, illustrated.

 

Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists. 
Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists. 

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Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri, presents large works by strong regional and national contemporary artists.