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Joshua Meador: Critics, Quotations, Exhibitions, & Notable Collections

Alfred Frankenstein, long time Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Joshua Meador's landscapes are free, breezy, vigorous, and full of subtle touches of painter-craft. They suggest movement and atmosphere and relationships in space."	Arthur Millier, Art Critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Joshua Meador has the happy faculty of seeing a picture in everything from wharves to hills and paints his scenes with striking realism. He sees the outdoors with fresh eyes and a good sense of what many people can enjoy."	California Art Club (CAC) at their January 16 1959 meeting at Rancho Golf Club House in Palm Springs. Newsletter intro ... "Joshua Meador is highly individualistic and his technique is definitely his own. He is able to produce a feeling of boldness with restraint."

Alfred Morang, Sante Fe Artist & Art Critic for the Sante Fe News "Joshua Meador paints with fine command of gray tonality, and understands the use of color to project a most interesting quality of imagnination."	E. M. Polley, Art Critic for The Vallejo Times Herald, "This is the essence of Meador's landscapes, clean, sparking color, appplied in such a way that the eye blends the hues, tints and shades. His canvases of Mendocino County, for instance, look as if everything has been freshly rained on, and the wobbly old fences, although they look weathered and used, are not dirty and dusty."

Quotes

-Joshua Meador's son Philip quoting his father, what 'Josh' often said to admirers standing behind him as he painted. -
"First and foremost, I'm a painter, Disney is my day job."

-Joshua Meador, occasion of an exhibition at Rutherford Galleries in Portland, OR
"I think I'm inclined toward impressionism. But, 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 emotioally rather than breaking it down to rule, form or dynamic symetry."

-Interview with Countess Elektra Rozanska (Newsletter, September, 2015)
When asked about the development of an animated sequence like the fire scene in Bambi, Meador replied, "You're touching on a subject that is very tehnical and lengthy. A sequence first is developed in the story department. Then it is given to the director who controls the picture. The effects work is turned over to the effets department where it is drawn. This is my special field. Then the effect is interpreted by the artist to whom it is assigned."

Exhibitions

Los Angeles County Museum, Contemporary Painting / U.S., (Meador's Conway Summit, between Bridgeport and Mono Lake, 1951
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Contemporary American Painting, 1952
Society of Western Artists (SWA), 12th Annual Exhibition, 1951, de Young Museum, San Francisco
National Orange Show, 1953
National Academy of Design, 1955
de Young Museum, San Francisco, Regional Show
Frances Webb Gallery, Laguna Beach Art Assocciation Show
New Mexico Museum of Art, Sante Fe, NM
Greek Theater, Los Angeles, 1948
Santa Paula Annual Art Exhibition, 1950 & 1954
Sierra Madre Library, 1955
Pasadena Art Museum, 1954
Intervalley Savings and Loan Exhibition, 3 Artists Exhibition, Hanson Puthuff, Ralph Hulett & Joshua Meador.
Rutherford Galleries, 1434 Southwest Mill Street, Portland, OR, 1952
Rutherford Galleries, 3024 Fillmore St. , San Francisco, CA (relocated from Portland)

Frances Webb Gallery, Laguna Beach Art Association Exhibition
Whittier Art Association Gallery, Whittier, CA
Barker Brothers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1951
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA
The Lane Galleries, Westwood Village, 1027 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Paaske Gallery, Riverside, CA
Whites' Art Store, 2315 Honolulu Ave, Montrose, CA

Notable Collections
-Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX. In 1965, Josh was honored by NASA when he was chosen to be the artist on board the aircraft carrier retrieving the first returning astronauts from the moon. Josh gave a painting entitled California Coast was given to the LBJ administration when he was chosen. Unfortunately, Josh died later in 1965 and was unable to paint the astraunauts returning from the moon in July of 1969.	California Coast, 24 x 36
Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, CA This painting is of Walt Disney's Smoke Tree Ranch, nestled at the foot of Palm Spring's Mt. San Jacinto. This painting was used in the recent film Saving Mr. Banks staring Tom Hanks. It was hanging in Walt's office behind his desk.	Smoke Tree Ranch, 24 x 36
United States Air Force Art Collection, Vandenburg AFB, CA We are still researching the occasion why this painting was done and given to the Air Force.	Bird 519, 1962
Fred MacMurray was a personal friend and fan of Joshua Meador paintings. Josh became acquainted with MacMurray when he starred in Disney's "Flubber" movies in the early 1960's. MacMurray had long been a Hollywood star, but Meador's son Disney had fond rememberences of him and his kindness to Josh.
the Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller art collection.

Meador Paintings sold by Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery
	"Mood Indigo" # 1805 22 x 30 Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family	Smoke Trees 20 x 27 SOLD Disney Collection	"Far Beyond" #1820 14 x 18 Disney Collection
Pow Wow 18 x 14 Disney Collection	Pacific Cove 20 x 27	Rainy Conversation, 8 x 6	Snowfall's Golden Moment 6 x 8
Shoreline 16 x 12	Veiled Morning 20 x 27	Edge of the Bay 18 x 14	Beach at Morro Bay, 18 x 24
Reflective Road SOLD 6 x 8	Two Barn Curve SOLD 6 x 8	Tidepools, 1905, 12 x 16 Meador family Collection	Untitled, Red Roses Still Life, 14 x 16
Red Roses 10 x 8 Meador Family Collection	Marine Rocks 6 x 8 Meador Family Collection	Finale 12 x 27 Meador Family Collection	Bach Sonata for Cello 18 x 24 Meador Family Collection
Gray Tone, 14 x 18	I Dreamt I Was Painting 18 x 14	Fun Time 22 x 30 SOLD (the King Arthur Carousel, Disneyland) Meador Family Collection	"Boat Anchorage"18 x 24
Rain People, # 1457 27 x 18 - SOLD	"Rainy Day" SOLD (Bodega, CA) 22 x 30	Toward San Jacinto SOLD Disney Collection 20 x 27 Courtesy of the Meador Family	Spring Rain (near Valley Ford, CA) 20 x 27 SOLD
"Palm Spring" 14 x 18 SOLD Disney Collection, Courtesy of the Meador Family	Ebb Tide Stroll 6 x 8 SOLD Meador Family Collection	Modernist Pier 6 x 8 SOLD Meador Family Collection	*Left by the Tide* (Bodega Bay) 20 x 27 SOLD
River Homes 20 x 27 Meador Family Collection	Caspar Inlet 16 x 12 - SOLD Meador Family Collection	Los Altos Ranch SOLD 20 x 27	Fisherman's Wharf 22 x 30 SOLD Meador Family Collection
Coastal Rocks and Crashing Waves 26 x 36	"Homeward Bound"26 x 36	"Stewart's Point"24 x 34	Almond Alley22 x 30 Meador family collection
"Forest Primeval" 22 x 30	"Mission" 22 x 30	"Village in the Valley" 22 x 30 Cambria Pines, Meador family collection	Sierra Retreat20 x 27
"Castaway"20 x 27 Meador family collection	Oatman Mine Arizona20 x 27 Meador family collection	"Sousa's Cove" 20 x 27 (South of Carmel)	The Old Pasture20 x 27 Meador family collection
"Remote"20 x 27	Granville Redmond House20 x 27 Meador family collection	"Bodega Dock" 18 x 24	"Beach at Morro" Morro Bay 18 x 24 Meador family collection
De Regreso18 x 14	Red Barn8 x 10	Woodland Stroll 7 x 9	*Rainy Windy Day*6 5/8 x 7 5/8