David Eugene Henry

Born in Rome, Georgia in 1946 Henry studied at the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech under the direction of P. M. Heffernan. At Georgia Tech he studied with painters John Hardy, George Beatty Jr., and sculptor Julian Hoke Harris. He was included in the 24th Annual Southeastern Exhibition at the High Museum of Art in 1970. A painting from that series was exhibited in the Georgia Artists 2 Invitational Exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and two other works were chosen by the Georgia Council for the Arts to be purchased for the State of Georgia permanent art collection. Artworks in private collections were featured in architecture and interior design magazines. In 1973 he received a grant to work as artist-in-residence for the city of Albany. From 1972 through 1975 he created several murals in public buildings and won a mural design competition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts to create a large mural for the Bayfront Center Arena in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1975 he accepted a position teaching in the art department at Eckerd College and by the end of 1977 he had received significant awards including three grants from the National Endowments for the Arts. ==Art career==

In 1980 he set up a studio in New York City and did post-graduate studies at the Art Students’ League of New York and with notable American painter Philip Pearlstein. Bronze_of_Bucephalus.jpg|Bronze of Bucephalus F042.jpg|Charcoal Drawing Bronze_of_Spartacus.jpg California_oil_landscape.jpg Florida_oil_landscape.jpg Red_chalk_drawing.jpg E048k.jpg ==Awards==

• National Endowment for the Arts, Three Grants, 1973, 1974, 1975 • First Prize in Painting, Twenty-second Arts Festival of Atlanta, 1975 • Purchase Award, Piedmont Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, 1972 • First Prize, National Endowment for the Arts mural competition, 1977 • Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts ==Memberships==

• Salmagundi Club (New York) • American Artists’ Professional League • Allied Artists of America • National Society of Artists • Artists Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum ==Public collections - partial list==

• Georgia Museum of Art • Indiana Museum of Art • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NYC) • State of Georgia permanent art collection • Morris Museum of Art ==See also==