Stewart's work is in major private and public collections including: The National Academy Museum, NYC New-York Historical Society, NY The Museum of the City of New York, NY Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA New York University, NY Yale University Art Gallery, CT Wesleyan College, Macon, GA Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC Indiana State University, IN Miami University, FL the Museum of Southeast Missouri University, MO Rosemary Berkel & Harry L. He was an accomplished educator, art administrator, and the first to photograph and document the New York City Subway graffiti movement, from its beginning, in his definitive work Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s. Many of his furniture pieces were featured in Furniture Forum. During that time he also founded the Stewart-Marean Gallery and The Stewart Studio, which was established for the design and execution of his commissioned mosaic furnishings and murals. During the 1950s he showed with Charles Egan, Joseph Grippi, and Richard Waddell. His first solo painting exhibit was in 1950 at the George Binet Gallery. His first wife and their son are deceased. In 1976 Stewart married painter and art administrator Regina Serniak Stewart. He studied architecture at Columbia University and later earned MA and Ph.D. After the war he earned a BFA degree at Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning. During WWII he served in Patton's Third Army as a combat infantryman, entering combat in the Battle of the Bulge. In his early to mid-teens he apprenticed to the sculptor/painter Steffen Thomas. When he was about nine he went to classes at the High Museum of Art. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he began private art lessons when he was seven.
Jack Stewart (Janu– March 4, 2005) was an American artist.
Symbolist painting photographer, New York City Subway graffitiĪcademician, National Academy President, New York Artists Equity Association President, National Society of Mural Painters President, Fine Arts Federation of New York
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