John McNamara (artist)

'Alone', oil on canvas painting by John McNamara, 1983, private collection

John McNamara (born 1950) is an American artist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a BFA in painting and in 1977 with an MFA. In 1975, he began teaching painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and remained there until 1983. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1981. Since 1993, he has taught at University of California, Berkeley, but has recently moved to Novato CA in 2004 where he is currently living with his wife and two children.

The Boston Public Library, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA), the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA), the Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA), the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA), the Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH), the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY) and the Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ) are among the public collections holding work by John McNamara.

References

• Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield, Nicholas Capasso & Jennifer Uhrhane, Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, Lincoln, Mass., DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2002, 231.