Edward Chávez

born Wagonmound, New Mexico, 1917; died Woodstock, New York, 1995

BiographyEdward Chavez was a painter, muralist, sculptor, and lithographer. He worked through the Depression years of the 1930s as a WPA muralist, then during WWII for the U.S. Army painting murals in mess halls. After the war ended he relocated to Woodstock, New York. In 1951 he won a Fulbright Grant allowing him and his wife, artist Jenne Magafan, to paint in Italy for the year.

He went on to teach at the Arts Students League of New York, was visiting Professor of Art at Colorado College, and Assistant Professor of Art at Syracuse University. Chavez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Museum, Detroit Museum of Art and numerous private collections. Selected exhibitions include a one-man exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, and group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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