Joseph Sheppard

Background

Born, Owings Mills, Maryland, 1930

Training

Maryland Institute of Art, 1948-1952
Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship to Florence, Italy, 1957

Awards and Prizes (partial listing)

Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Emily Low Prize, Allied Artists of America, 1956
John F. and Anne Lee Stacey Scholarship Award, 1958
Bronze Metal of Honor, Allied Artists of America, 1963
First Purchase Award, Butler Institute of American Art, 1963
John McDonough Prize, Butler Institute of American Art, 1967
Governor's Prize, Maryland Artist's Exhibition, 1971
Tallix Foundry Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1983
Paul Puzinas Award, Allied Artists of America, 1983
Willliam Meyerowitz Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, 1985
Agop Agapoff memorial Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1986
Silver Medal of Honor, Allied Artists of America, 1986
Percival Dietsch Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1994

Museums/Collections (partial listing)

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland
Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Midwest Museum Of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa
Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona
Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brookgreen Gardens Museum of American Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Malcom Forbes Collection, New York, New York
Musco Dei Bozzetti Di Pietrasanta, Italy
Consiglio della Toscana, Florence, Italy
National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, IN