Former DePauw Professor William Meehan Art Exhibit at Putnam County Museum
Winter Trees and Shadows
October 11, 2022
Meehan Exploration: A Retrospective
October 8, 2022 – February 11, 2023
Saturday, October 8, 2022 through Saturday, February 11, 2023, the Putnam County Museum will present a retrospective of artist, Bill Meehan.
Loans from family, PCM, and private collections will bring together the works of an artist who was comfortable and masterful using mixed media, oils, and watercolors. The exhibit reveals his love of people, place, and animals in abstract, still life, and landscape, including his whimsical cows! WISH-TV reporter Ray Rice, while covering a 1990 exhibition at DePauw, observed that “Bill Meehan is an artist and a teacher, who is as colorful and joyous as his brush on canvas.”
Meehan was born in Decatur Illinois in 1930 and received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, MA from Bradley University, and his MFA from the Instituto Allende. After teaching art at Bradley University, Peoria Art Center, and Syracuse University, and working as a commercial designer, Bill was hired to teach art at DePauw University in 1963 and became head of the art department in 1979.
Besides the vast amount of work he produced while exploring Indiana, his sabbaticals and travels allowed him to create his art in Mexico, Argentina, Greece, and diverse areas of the United States. Meehan retired from DePauw in 1992. He left an amazing collection of more than 1,700 works of his artistic genius when he passed away in 1997.
The Putnam County Museum is located at 1105 North Jackson Street in Greencastle 46135, and is open weekdays, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturdays in October, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, persons may call the museum at 765 653-8419.