Meloy Paintings On Display At Um

The acclaimed paintings and drawings of Henry Meloy are on display at the Paxon Gallery at the University of Montana in Missoula.

Meloy grew up in Townsend, Mont. In 1922, after graduating from high school, he moved to the Midwest to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and then continued to study and pursue his art in New York City.

Before accepting a teaching position at Columbia University, the struggling Meloy often lived on nothing more than paltry welfare checks.

Meloy was 49 when he died in 1951, before receiving much acclaim. At the time of his death, he was relatively unknown and had shown in only a few galleries.

Maloy’s parents and brother saved his extensive collection, and today much of it lies in major museum collections.

“Paintings and Drawings” by Meloy will be shown through Sept. 8.

Call for proposals

On the Boards in Seattle is currently accepting proposals for innovative dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary performances to be featured in the Northwest New Works Festival next spring.

For more information, call (206) 325-7902. Submission deadline is Sept. 22.

Albion artist recognized

Shelly Stewart, a colored-pencil artist from Albion, was one of 16 artists out of 1,000 to be awarded the distinguished Signature Membership in the Colored Pencil Society of America.

Also, her drawing “Seven Shadows” was selected into the 1995 CPSA International Colored Pencil Exhibition at the Art in the Powerhouse gallery in Cleveland.

Artist makes appearance

In celebration of the Moscow Gallery’s two-year anniversary, Idaho artist Frank D. Miller, renowned for his landscape, western and wildlife paintings, will appear at the gallery, 4 to 8 p.m., Aug. 18.

His work also will be on display.

This will be Miller’s only Northwest exhibition and reception this year. For more information, call (208) 883-1859.

Watercolors exhibited

JoAnne Nixon, a Spokane watercolor artist, has had her piece “Hot Seats” accepted into the Eastern Washington Water Color Society Competition at the Allied Arts Gallery in Richland, Sept. 5-29.

Spokane watercolor artist Edie Dunlap has had yet another of her works selected for exhibit. Her painting “Mexican Business Transaction” will hang at the Chase Gallery in City Hall for the Portrait Exhibit. The show runs through Aug. 28.