Welpott received his Bachelors, Masters, and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Indiana University. Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University in California and photographer, Welpott also conducts numerous photographic workshops throughout the world. He has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a Marin Arts Council Grant. His works have been exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the globe, including a twenty-five year retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Osaka Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Artforum, American Photography, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine are among the numerous publications in which his works have appeared. During his early childhood, Welpott lived in Sedalia, Missouri, and attended Mark Twain Elementary School. He has fond memories of his parents attending dances in a pavilion at Liberty Park. He recalls their fondness for jazz during those years and attributes his own love for jazz to his early introduction to it by his parents. After having moved from Sedalia more than 70 years ago, Welpott?s work has returned and become part of the photography collection at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Welpott received his Bachelors, Masters, and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Indiana University. Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University in California and photographer, Welpott also conducts numerous photographic workshops throughout the world. He has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a Marin Arts Council Grant. His works have been exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the globe, including a twenty-five year retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Osaka Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Artforum, American Photography, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine are among the numerous publications in which his works have appeared. During his early childhood, Welpott lived in Sedalia, Missouri, and attended Mark Twain Elementary School. He has fond memories of his parents attending dances in a pavilion at Liberty Park. He recalls their fondness for jazz during those years and attributes his own love for jazz to his early introduction to it by his parents. After having moved from Sedalia more than 70 years ago, Welpott?s work has returned and become part of the photography collection at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.
Verrieres, St. Germain Lavel
Welpott received his Bachelors, Masters, and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Indiana University. Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University in California and photographer, Welpott also conducts numerous photographic workshops throughout the world. He has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a Marin Arts Council Grant. His works have been exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the globe, including a twenty-five year retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Osaka Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Artforum, American Photography, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine are among the numerous publications in which his works have appeared. During his early childhood, Welpott lived in Sedalia, Missouri, and attended Mark Twain Elementary School. He has fond memories of his parents attending dances in a pavilion at Liberty Park. He recalls their fondness for jazz during those years and attributes his own love for jazz to his early introduction to it by his parents. After having moved from Sedalia more than 70 years ago, Welpott?s work has returned and become part of the photography collection at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.
Chanticleer
Gardener, school bus driver and insurance investigator are some of the jobs Waid held before his artistic career took off. After acquiring his graduate degree in painting from the University of Arizona in 1971, he landed a job teaching at the new community college in Tucson. During his time teaching at Pima Community College he started to lose interest in the formal aspects of painting. Since there was no running water in his classroom at Pima Community College, Waid decided to take his students outdoors to draw. This time spent in the desert ignited his interest in nature and its growth processes and greatly influenced his artistic style. Waid began exhibiting in 1974 and by 1980 he was successful enough to resign from teaching and paint full time. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum of Art and many other public collections throughout the United States. Prominent art critic John Perreault has declared Waid?s work to be complicated and gorgeous. He describes Waid?s work as comparable to jazz because the paintings are serious, yet still easy on the mind. In his usual monumental style, Waid has created a painterly vision of the desert in Chanticleer. The title literally means ?rooster,? and to the right of the center of the painting you can make out an abstract head and neck resembling a rooster. The brilliant yellow flower appears to be a plume on the rooster?s head. There also is a tree with the same name as the title, and it flowers and resembles the yellow flower, too. The flowers of the Chanticleer pear tree are white but when the sun sets they do look like the yellow flower in this painting. This painting makes a bold statement with its bright yellow flower, intricate designs and sensual overtones throughout the composition.
Gossamer Grey Sea
Untitled (Judy Dater & Nude)
On the faculty of Kansas City Art Institute since 1975, Sutton has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In 1987 the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery featured his work in a seven-year survey. This exhibition detailed his development and expansion of his unique style of work. He has received several honors, including the excellence award from the Society of Contemporary Photography, the MIAA-NEA Photography Fellowship and a Fulbright Grant. Sutton?s commercial work has appeared in such prestigious publications as Artforum, Time/Life Books, Ceramics Monthly, American Crafts Magazine and Art in America. The Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, the Denver Museum, and the Belger Cartage Corporation have purchased prints by Sutton. Photo Metro published his portfolios twice and his cover photograph from it won an award for magazine publishing. This professor?s artistic interest lies in photo montage that deals with time and place in collision. Sutton successfully creates new visual possibilities out of realistic concepts. Today he continues to excite viewers with his innovative style of photography.
Untitled
On the faculty of Kansas City Art Institute since 1975, Sutton has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In 1987 the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery featured his work in a seven-year survey. This exhibition detailed his development and expansion of his unique style of work. He has received several honors, including the excellence award from the Society of Contemporary Photography, the MIAA-NEA Photography Fellowship and a Fulbright Grant. Sutton?s commercial work has appeared in such prestigious publications as Artforum, Time/Life Books, Ceramics Monthly, American Crafts Magazine and Art in America. The Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, the Denver Museum, and the Belger Cartage Corporation have purchased prints by Sutton. Photo Metro published his portfolios twice and his cover photograph from it won an award for magazine publishing. This professor?s artistic interest lies in photo montage that deals with time and place in collision. Sutton successfully creates new visual possibilities out of realistic concepts. Today he continues to excite viewers with his innovative style of photography.
Untitled
On the faculty of Kansas City Art Institute since 1975, Sutton has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In 1987 the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery featured his work in a seven-year survey. This exhibition detailed his development and expansion of his unique style of work. He has received several honors, including the excellence award from the Society of Contemporary Photography, the MIAA-NEA Photography Fellowship and a Fulbright Grant. Sutton?s commercial work has appeared in such prestigious publications as Artforum, Time/Life Books, Ceramics Monthly, American Crafts Magazine and Art in America. The Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, the Denver Museum, and the Belger Cartage Corporation have purchased prints by Sutton. Photo Metro published his portfolios twice and his cover photograph from it won an award for magazine publishing. This professor?s artistic interest lies in photo montage that deals with time and place in collision. Sutton successfully creates new visual possibilities out of realistic concepts. Today he continues to excite viewers with his innovative style of photography.
Reflection
On the faculty of Kansas City Art Institute since 1975, Sutton has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In 1987 the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery featured his work in a seven-year survey. This exhibition detailed his development and expansion of his unique style of work. He has received several honors, including the excellence award from the Society of Contemporary Photography, the MIAA-NEA Photography Fellowship and a Fulbright Grant. Sutton?s commercial work has appeared in such prestigious publications as Artforum, Time/Life Books, Ceramics Monthly, American Crafts Magazine and Art in America. The Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, the Denver Museum, and the Belger Cartage Corporation have purchased prints by Sutton. Photo Metro published his portfolios twice and his cover photograph from it won an award for magazine publishing. This professor?s artistic interest lies in photo montage that deals with time and place in collision. Sutton successfully creates new visual possibilities out of realistic concepts. Today he continues to excite viewers with his innovative style of photography.