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Yale University, School of art and architecture (1969-71). . Yale University, School of art and architecture (1969-71). ..

If an INDIVIDUAL file is not found, check the appropriate cumulative file by first letter of last name. Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus Chrestomathy, Richard C. Search UM Libraries Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011 (301)405-0800 Please send comments and suggestions to the Libraries' Webmaster. ..

. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is hosting an exhibition of 12 sculptures which capture Mr. Puryear began his studies in biology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, but soon switched over to painting and illustration and graduated with a fine arts degree in 1963. His early visions were to become a wildlife illustrator, so the combination of biology and art were perhaps not so strange. Puryear spent two years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa where he taught art, biology, French and English.

.25" Few artists working in America today have received the critical acclaim imparted to Martin Puryear. Puryear began his art career in 1959, under the direction of painter Nell Sonneman at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. Between 1964 and 1966, working as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa, Puryear independently studied West African arts and crafts. In 1967, while enrolled at the Swedish Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, he began to study carpentry.