The Meador family is now making a portion of their collection available for sale. These family paintings have never been exhibited before. They are expressive with sophisticated composition and exhibit intriguing notes of modernity and mood.

Joshua's idea of fun was painting. When vacation time arrived, the family would pack up their wood paneled station wagon and tear drop trailer to head out for painting adventures.

One of their favorite destinations was Bodega Bay and the sights of Sonoma County. Our gallery has seen about 15 paintings done here in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

Josh attended the Art Institute of Chicago during the Great Depression, from 1931 and graduating cum laude in 1935. He began at the Disney Studios in 1936 and quickly rose to become the studio's Director of Animation Effects.

His paintings have been exhibited at the Museum of New Mexico, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Greek Theatre of Los Angeles, the de Young Museum and the Walt Disney Family Museum of San Francisco.

He participated in art shows for the city of Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, the Walnut Creek Festival, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Pasadena Art Museum, the national Academy of Design, and the Sierra Madre Library. He has had one-man shows at the Lone Galleries of Los Angeles, the Ruthermore Galleries in San Francisco and the Carmel Highland Gallery in Carmel.

He was elected as a Fellow to the International Institute of Arts and Letters. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Laguna Beach Art Association, the Carmel Art Association, and the honorary art fraternity Delta Phi Delta.

Josh's art was widely collected, and among some of the more notable collectors included Walt Disney, George Montgomery, Fred McMurray and President Lyndon Johnson. Just prior to his death in August of 1965, Josh was named to be the artist to do a portrait of the first astronauts returning from landing on the moon. His untimely death did not allow him the honor of fulfilling this honor.