Herb Jackson

A native of North Carolina, Herb Jackson received his Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College in 1967 and his Master of Fine Arts from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. He is a facult member and former Chair of the Art Department at Davidson College. Jackson's work in painting and printmaking has been shown nationally and internationally for over thirty years in both solo and group exhibitions. In 1999 he received Noth Carolina's highest civilian honor for Lifetime Achievement in Fine Arts. Jackson has visited Littleton Studios numerous times over the years.

His work can be found in more than eighty museum collections, including the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, California; Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico; Asheville Museum of Art, North Carolina; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. IN England his is in the collection of the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Originally published by the Littleton Collection Gallery.

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Herb Jackson (born 1945) is an artist and is the William H. Williamson Professor of Art at Davidson College. In 1999 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina. Herb Jackson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1945. Throughout his childhood he was a regular at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and won his first award for art in a juried exhibition there in 1962, as a teenager. He received his undergraduate degree in German from Davidson College in 1967 (art was not offered as a major yet) and studied abroad at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany for a year.[1] Three years later he earned his masters degree in fine arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970. In 1969, while finishing up his graduate studies, Jackson began teaching at Davidson. In 1982 he became the Chair of the Art department, a position which he has held ever since. Jackson has had more than 100 single-artist exhibitions in several countries, including England, Portugal, and Peru. Some of Jackson's work was chosen to be included in the first exhibition of contemporary American art to be presented in the former USSR. Jackson's work is now in more than 80 collections including the British Museum in London and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. Jackson's art is almost entirely abstract and non-representational. He is most known for his paintings, both larger works on canvas and smaller on board, and also for his oil crayon drawings on paper. He has also done a number of prints using vitreography and digital media.

REFERENCES

Carolina Arts Magazine article on Mr. Jackson

North Carolina Award Profile

Davidson College News & Events Article