Jeanet Steckler Dreskin Limited edition of only 10 Litho "Interplay". Numbered 7/10 and signed in pencil by the artist. Framed and matted 13"x17"x1/2". Weight 3 pds. Ever since she moved to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1950, Jeanet Steckler Dreskin has been a dynamic regional force as an educator and inventive artist. Born in New Orleans in 1921, she was raised in an artistic environment fostered by her mother and grandmother’s own creative pursuits. Awarded an academic scholarship at age seventeen, she entered Sophie Newcomb College, the woman’s adjunct of Tulane University. She studied with Xavier Gonzalez and Will Henry Stevens, who taught her about art fundamentals and the importance of materials, while inculcating an appreciation of nature. Steckler was admitted to the medical arts program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1942, eventually earning a graduate certificate. Following her marriage, Dreskin accepted a position with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and studied at the Art Students League in the evenings. At the museum, Dreskin focused on illustrations of primates and completed one hundred drawings for a publication entitled Gorilla, Gorilla. She moved to the Midwest in 1946 and joined the staff of the University of Chicago as a medical illustrator. In the late 1960s, Dreskin was asked to head the school at the Greenville County Museum of Art. Several years later, she planned the studio spaces in the museum’s new building. In 1971, Dreskin enrolled in the new graduate program at Clemson University, becoming the school’s first recipient of a master of fine arts degree.Dreskin’s lists of exhibitions and collections is extensive, and museums throughout the Southeast, as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, own examples of her work. She is also represented in university holdings, such as Furman, Clemson, and the College of Charleston, as well as numerous area corporate collections. In 2004, Dreskin received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts in the category of lifetime achievement. Ref: The Johnson Collection

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