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Chronology
by
Ron Netsky
1908John
Conway Menihan is born February 14 in Rochester, New York
1924While
in high school designs a cover for Five O'Clock, a magazine published
by Rochester journalist Henry Clune
1926Enters
the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania where
he designs sets, posters and program covers for the Mask and Wig
Club
1930After
seeing an exhibition of lithographs by Rochester architect Walter
Cassebeer, acquires a lithographic press and stones
1931Begins
to draw portraits of socialites and newsmakers for Town Tidings
- The Magazine of Western New York and the Rochester Times Union
1934Makes
the first of two trips to Zena, near Woodstock, NY, to study with
master lithographer Bolton Brown
1937Exhibits
lithograph in International Printmakers Exhibiton, Los Angles, Museum
of Art
1938Exhibits
several lithographs at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo
1939Exhibits
lithograph at the New York World's Fair Show
1942Temporarily
gives up art to work in family business, which makes parachutes
during World War II
1945"John
C. Menihan, Lithographer" by Norman Kent is published in American
Artist
1947Wins
four First Prizes - in oil painting, watercolor, printmaking and
drawing - in the Memorial Art Gallery's Finger Lakes Exhibition
1947Begins
teaching at the University of Rochester
1950Paints
portrait of Frank E. Gannett
1951Exhibits
serigraph print at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburg
1952Designs
children's store for B. Forman Company department store in Brighton,
NY
1957Designs
and constructs "St Jerome" stained-glass window at Nazareth
College's Lorette Wilmot Library in Pittsford, NY
Creates a shrine to St Joseph for St Louis Catholic Church in Pittsford,
NY
Paints portrait of Bishop James E. Kearney for St John Fisher College
in Pittsford, NY
1960Designs
and executes mural for Xerox Research and Engineering Center in
Rochester
1964Designs
and executes 112-foot mural for Security Trust Company in Rochester
1965Creates
Stations of the Cross for Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Brighton,
NY
1967Designs
and executes mural for Rochester Telephone (the mural is now located
at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute
for the Deaf)
1968Designs
and executes mural for the R.T. French Company
1974Creates
a relief sculpture of "Our Lady of the Grapes" in the
garden of St Januarius Church in Naples, NY
1978Creates
a triptych depicting the life of St. Elizabeth Seton at St. Thomas
the Apostle Church in Irondequoit, NY
1983Retrospective
exhibiton is held at Nazareth College in Pittsford, NY
1988"John
C. Menihan; Prints from the 1930s and 1940s" displayed at The
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
1992John
Menihan dies at his Rochester home, September 4
Ron Netsky is Chairman
of the Art Department
at
Nazereth College in Rochester, NY
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