Francis Sumner Merritt
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Francis Merritt (1937) at the Abbot Academy
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| Born | April 8, 1913 Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Belfast, Maine, U.S. |
| Other names | Francis Merritt, Fran Merritt |
| Education | Vesper George School of Art, San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Massachusetts School of Art, Yale University |
| Occupation | painter, teacher, arts administrator |
| Known for | fine art |
Francis "Fran" Sumner Merritt (1913–2000) was an American painter, teacher, and arts administrator.[1] He was a co-founder and first director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.[2]
Biography
Francis Sumner Merritt was born on April 8, 1913, in Danvers, Massachusetts.[2] He studied at the Vesper George School of Art, the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, the Massachusetts School of Art, and at Yale University.[3]
Merritt taught at Abbot Academy, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Flint Institute of Arts (from 1947 to 1951).[3] In 1950, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts was founded in Liberty, Maine and Merritt served as the school's first director.[3][4] His wife Pricilla worked on the arts administration for the school.[4] For many years they lived at Centennial House, just outside the town of Deer Isle, Maine.[5]
Merritt died on December 27, 2000, in Belfast, Maine.[2] His work is included in the museum collections at the National Gallery of Art,[6] and the Hudson Museum.[7]
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External links
- Oral history interview with Francis Sumner Merritt, 1979 May 25-June 25, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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