Merlin C. Dailey Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1931 - d. 2015

Merlin Dailey graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in 1958. He went on to receive an M.F.A. from the University of Indiana in 1960 with a degree in printmaking and Asian art history. He was associate professor of art at Memphis State University from 1960-68 where he taught drawing, printmaking and Asian art history. After becoming involved with the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, Merlin and his wife Mary Ann moved their family to upstate New York to become members of the Rochester Folk Art Guild, a community of artisans and students of the Gurdjieff Work. He accepted a position of professor of fine art at Keuka College (1968-70) and then at Eisenhower College (1970-72). In 1970, Merlin and Mary Ann's longtime interest in Japanese art and philosophy culminated in the opening of the East West Gallery in Victor, NY which would run for 33 years and become the oldest Asian art gallery in the U.S. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.