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for John Potter Wheat
1920 - 1980
Wheat studied at the Art Students League in New York in in 1943 took a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Yale University, New Haven. Three years later he was awarded the Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting. In addition to mural paintings, Wheat was active as a watercolorist and his landscapes soon achieved national recognition. After moving to Connecticut he became a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artsts where he later served as faculty member and director. In 1957 he received the ALlied ARtists Gold Medal for his watercolor Path of the Conqueror. His paintings are in numerous public collections including that of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut.
