Artist Lancelott

Lancelott is an internationally recognized artist who was born 30 January 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). His paternal grandfather was of English stock (whose ancestors first came to America in 1790) who married the daughter of a union of first generation immigrants from Sweden and Germany. His maternal grandparents combine Scotch-Canadian and Native American lineage.

Since the 1970s he has actively pursued parallel career paths. While working as a vice president of J P Morgan Chase and serving as associate director of the American Council for the Arts and as the chief administrative officer of two art museums in America, he was simultaneously making, exhibiting and selling his artwork under the nom de brosse, Lancelott. Fifteen of his works are held in nine institutional and corporate collections including a major painting in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Fine Art in Amman, Jordan and The National Gallery of Thailand.

Over the years, working with found objects, images from popular culture, photography, acrylic, gouache, oil stick, pastels, cut and torn paper I have been making art in a variety of styles: surrealistic compositions based on my dream life; abstract or non objective pieces ...

I was educated at M.I.T. (Cambridge, Mass.); New York University and Columbia University (New York City). Although I also studied painting with Anthony Tony at the New School in New York City, I am basically self-taught.

The summer of 2000 I was a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow, artist in residence, at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Prior to that, in1983, I was a Getty Foundation Fellow at the Museum Management Institute, University of California at Berkeley.