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Mel Pekarsky | |
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 Mel Pekarsky in his studio, February 2013 | |
| Born | Melvin Hirsch Pekarsky September 18, 1934 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Mel (Melvin H.) Pekarsky (born September 18, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist and art educator. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of the desert, and is recognized by art critic Donald Kuspit as "one of the most significant contemporary landscape artists."[1] A professor of art at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for forty years, Pekarsky's work has been shown by the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Butler Institute of American Art, among many other venues.
- ^ Pekarsky's Desert Tundra by Donald Kuspit, booklet from G.W. Einstein Co., Inc., 1988.