| John Kearney | ||
| Birth Date: August 31, 1924 |
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| Death Date: August 10, 2014 Artist Gallery |
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| John Kearney was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924. He received his formal art training at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, after serving four years in the Navy during World War II in the South Pacific. Kearney creates welded steel sculptures from steel automobile bumpers and in bronze. They are primarily animal and figurative forms and are both large and small scale.
Kearney was the co-founder of the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago in 1949. The Workshop was a highly regarded non-profit Chicago institution, exhibiting young emerging artists and providing affordable studio spaces for artists for 60 years. Hundreds of emerging artists had their first exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Workshop. He taught and lectured since 1950 and was the guiding spirit over all the years. The Workshop closed its unique operation in May 2009 with high praise from the art community and the public.
Kearney lived in Rome for two years and traveled from Rome to Egypt, the Middle East, China, Tibet, Southeast Asia, and Central America. He lives in Chicago during winter and lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts from Mid-June to Mid-September.
His works are in major museums and collections throughout the United States, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Detroit Children's Museum, Ulrich Museum of Wichita State University, Wichita, the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois State Capital Visitors Center, Springfield, Illinois, Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, the City of Chicago in Oz Park (the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Scare Crow and Dorothy and Toto), the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin, the Fayetteville Youth center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod, among others.
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