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Name
  
Stanley Meltzoff


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Died
  
November 9, 2006, Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

Education
  
New York University, City College of New York

Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 - November 9, 2006) was an American painter and was most known for his marine paintings

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Early life and career

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Born in New York City to father Nathan, a cantor at a Manhattan synagogue, Stanley Meltzoff graduated from the City College of New York and became an instructor at Pratt Institute. Serving in Italy during World War II, he was an artist and journalist for the U.S. military magazine Stars and Stripes. He also created visuals for Puptent Poets, a paperback of soldiers' verse.

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Returning to New York City after the war, he spent years alternating between teaching and art before becoming a full-time illustrator in 1949.

Later career

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During the 1950s, Meltzoff created dozens of paperback covers for novels by Robert Heinlein and others, and did artwork for Madison Avenue advertising agencies. He painted covers and interior spreads for magazines including Life, National Geographic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Atlantic, providing covers to Scientific American.

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With the advent of low-cost color photography and reproduction in the early 1960s, Meltzoff began painting saltwater game fish in their undersea environments. His marine-life art ran in such magazines as Sports Illustrated, Field and Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, Outdoor Life, Sporting Classics, Sports Afield, and Wildlife Art.

Recognition

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Meltzoff's art hangs in The National Gallery, the Getty Museum, and other institutions.

Personal life

Meltzoff was a member of the Society of Animal Artists.

Meltzoff died in 2006 at age 89.

References

Stanley Meltzoff Wikipedia


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