Signed Dean Jackson Meeker (1920-2002) Don Quixote Etching Artistic ProofFramed 27.25" x 40.5" Unframed: 25.75" x 38.75"Meeker's teaching career began in 1946 with his appointment as instructor in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and in 1950 he was promoted to assistant professor. In 1949 he began teaching the silkscreen process and his experiments in silkscreen led to his development of using a combination of polymer plate intaglios and screen printing. To achieve this he had to develop the Meeker press to print the high relief plates and his first successful serigraphy-polymer intaglio print was published in 1961. Meeker continued to teach drawing, painting and printmaking at Madison until 1992.In 1958, Meeker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1959 and 1960 to study printmaking in Europe. In Paris he worked at Hayter's printmaking workshop, Atelier 17, and with printmaker Kaiko Moti. He also studied printed in the museums of Spain and Italy. Meeker's work is represented in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Milwaukee, Beloit College Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brooklyn Museum, Denison University, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Library of Congress, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Meeker exhibited his prints internationally.

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