Biography
JOHN ROSS, painter, printmaker, and Professor of Art at Manhattanville College, also teaches printmaking at The New School in New York City. He has served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and is active in a number of art organizations. He has illustrated many books with drawings and prints. Ross has had over sixty one-man shows and is represented in the permanent collections of the National Collections of Fine Arts, Hirshhorn Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Dallas Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Philadelphia Public Library, Cincinnati Art Museum, and in many university and college collections. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the White House, and in many traveling exhibitions to scores of foreign countries, and he spent nine months as artist in residence with the United States Information Agency Exhibition, "Graphics U.S.A.," in Yugoslavia and Romania, giving lectures and demonstrations.