Joshua Meador I Dreamt I Was Painting

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Joshua Meador
"I Dreamt I Was Painting"
Summer, 2015

Joshua Meador, "I Dreamt I Was Painting"

The San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein wrote, "Joshua Meador's landscapes are free, breezy, vigorous, full of subtle touches of painter-craft to suggest movement and atmosphere and relationships in space."

The LA Times art Critic Arthur Miller wrote "Joshua Meador has the happy faculty of seeing a picture in everything from wharves to hills and paints his scenes with striking realism ... sees the outdoors with fresh eyes and a good sense of what many people can enjoy.

"I Dreamt I Was Painting," expresses what Josh was all about.

He once said, "I think I'm inclined toward impressionism ... I want to paint and interpret the way I feel and not be influenced by any one school. ... I like to select a subject according to the emotional quality and enjoy painting it emotionally rather than breaking it down to rule, form or dynamic symmetry."

Video Intro for "Joshua Meador: I Dreamt I Was Painting"

Today, Joshua Meador is revered as one of the pioneering fathers of early animation.

After graduating the Art Institute in Chicago, Josh's first job at the Disney Studios was to serve as lead animator on Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. Throughout his career, he made significant contributions for every major studio project though Mary Poppins in 1964. He was one of the directors of Fantasia in 1939 and was a member of the Disney effects team winning an Oscar for 20,000 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Below are linked thumbnails of some of the Meador paintings on exhibit
"I Dreamt I Was Painting"	Tending the Net	Caspar Reef Spray	Wild is the Wind
"I Dreamt I Was Painting"	Tending the Net	Caspar Point	Bodega Bayflat
Waiting at Noyo	Inner Harbor	Newport Harbor, Oregon	Cannery Row
Pow Wow 18 x 14 Disney Collection	"Far Beyond" #1820 14 x 18 Disney Collection	*Carmel Coast* 20 x 27	Sur Montage20 x 27 Meador Family Collection
Generations	Windbreak	Sheep Ranch Mendocino	Fun Time King Arthur Carousel, Disneyland
South Nevada	Sierra Wilds	Smoke Trees Disney Collection	Road to Mt. Whitney
The Last Symphony Painted for a reception in honor of Salvador Dali's visit to Disney Studios	Taos Pow Wow Meador Family Collection

The following Meador paintings are not on exhibit.
With an advance request, you can arrange to view them at the gallery for an appointed visit.

Caspar Reef Spray 24 x 36 Meador family collection	Pacific Cove 20 x 27	*Village by the Ocean*24 x 34 Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon	Evening's Glow on Caspar Reef 22 x 34 Meador family collection
Cliff Shapes (Caspar) 22 x 30	Composed by the Ocean 24 x 30 Meador Family Collection	Perimeter 27 x 40 Meador Family Collection	Fountain of Spring #1332 22 x 30
Park 22 x 30	Full Bloom 20 x 27	Duncans Mills, circa late 1940's 20 x 27	"Hill Village" 1951
Jack's Horses 14 x 18 Meador Family Collection	*Strolling in the Park*24 x 36 Meador family collection	Desert Planes 22 x 30 Meador family collection	Desert Landscape 20 x 27 Meador family collection
"A Clear Crispy Day"	Fresh Water 18 x 24	"To Water" 22 x 30	*"Glacier"24 x 34 Mt. Whitney near Lone Pine, CA*
Sierra Cabin Bishop	"Quaking Aspens"12 x 16