Education

M. F. A. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1978
Major: Painting
Minor: Drawing

B. F. A. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1974
Major: Painting
Minor: Lithography

Teaching Experience

1978-Present: McKendree College, Lebanon, IL 62254
1980 St. Louis Art Museum
1979-82: St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
1975-77: St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
1976-78: Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Courses Taught

Modern Art History and Painting
Color and Design
Design I and II
Sculpture Beginning and Advanced
Drawing and Figure Drawing
Photography, Black and White and Color (Beginning and Advanced)
Art Education Elementary and Secondary
Painting
Art History (Survey)
Advanced Drawing
David L. Ottinger

McKendree College Committees

CRPT 2 Years
FAC 2 Years
Budget, Salary & Fringe Benefits, Committee chair 1990-91, 1998-99
Library 2 Years
Faculty Marshal 2 Years
Admissions 2 Years
Student Conduct 1 Years
Yearbook Adviser 3 Years
Merit Pay 3 Years
Fine Arts 2 Years

Professional Organizations

1994-1997: “Art St. Louis” Program Committee, St. Louis, MO
1982-Present: College Art Association, New York, NY
1979-Present “Art St. Louis” St. Louis, MO

Painting and Art History Experience

1973 Mexico
Summer spent in viewing ruins, cathedrals and museums.

1974 New York City
Living. Spent much of the time painting and viewing art in
studios, galleries, and museums.

1975 Maine
Summer spent painting in the area of Stonington and Deer Isle.

1991 Sabbatical
Traveled in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, viewed museums, ruins and paintings.

Exhibitions Attended

1973 DeKooning, Bacon, Giacomentti and Dubeffet”
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico

1974 “Giacomentti”
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York City, NY

1975 “The Treasure of Tutankhamen”
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1976 “European Painting in the Seventies”
St. Louis Art Museum, St, Louis, MO
“Ten Years”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1977 “Sacred Circles”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
“America, 1976”
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI

1978 “A Survey of Prints”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Henri Matisse Paper Cut-Outs”
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

“The Mouse Museum – The Ray Gun Wing”
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
“Richard Estes, the Urban Landscape”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

1979 “Toulouse-Latrec”
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1981 “Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt”
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
“Edward Hopper”
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1982 “The Treasures of Tiffany”
Museum of Science and History, Chicago, IL

1983 “The Vatican Collection”
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1984 “A Day in the Country”
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1985 “Carravagio”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1986 “Winslow Homer”
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Watercolor U.S.A.”
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO

1987 “John Singer Sargent”
Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
“Wayne Thiebaud”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
“Arnold Newman”
Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
“Rameses II”
“Memphis Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

1988 “Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the Hermitage”
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

1989 “Thomas Hart Benton”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO

1995 “Monet”
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Vermeer”
The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1996 Visited galleries New York, New York

1998 Walker Art Center St. Paul, Minn.

Exhibits

1974 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1974 New York Artist Coalition Gallery, New York City, NY Reviewed

1974 Green Street Gallery, New York City, NY Reviewed

1975 Alvey Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Group Show) Reviewed and Juried

1975, 76, 78, 79, 80
St. Louis Community College, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO

1978, 79, 80
Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL (Color Lithography Show)

1978 Washington University, St. Louis, MO Invitational

1978 University of Texas, Houston, TX Invitational

1978 University of Illinois, Macomb, IL Invitational

1979 Washington University “Works on Paper” Juried

1980 McKendree College, Lebanon, IL

1980 “St. Louis Artists” Burns Gallery, St. Louis, MO Juried

1981 Belleville Area College, Belleville, IL Invitational

1981 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL Invitational

1983 McKendree College, Lebanon, IL

1984 Evansville Art Museum – “Realism” Evansville, IN Juried

1985 Artists Against Nuclear Energy, St. Louis, MO Juried

1986 Evansville Art Museum, Evansville, IN Juried

1987 Guest Artist, Grays Lake Community College Invitational

1988 McKendree College, Lebanon, IL

1988 “100 St. Louis Artists” St. Louis, MO Juried

1990 Art St. Louis Juried

1991 St. Louis Artists Coalition Juried

1991 “Small Painting Exhibition” Art St. Louis Juried

1990 “Introspections: Chicago Self-Portrait Invitational”
College of Lake County, Lake County, IL Juried

1992 “Figure Drawing in St. Louis” St. Louis Community College
Juried

1993 “Inside Outside” Pierce Arrow Gallery, St. Louis, MO Juried

1994 “St. Louis Artists Draw” Maryville College, St. Louis, MO Juried

1995 “Art St. Louis” Juried Competition Juried

2003 Primordial I Water Juried

2004 Western State College of Colorado “Visiting Art Faculty”

2006 New Paintings, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park

2008 Common Concerns, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis 

Workshops

1978-79-80: Guest Artist, Color Lithography Workshop, Illinois State
University, Bloomington-Normal, IL.

Collections

Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
McKendree College, Lebanon, IL
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Various Private and Corporate Collections