Artist

John McQueen

born Oakland, IL 1943
Born
Oakland, Illinois, United States
Active in
  • Alfred Station, New York, United States
Biography

John McQueen earned a B.A. degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1971 and an M.F.A. degree at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1975. He was the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977, 1979, and 1986.

McQueen's baskets are created from the materials he finds near his rural New York State farm, including twigs, bark, flowers, weeds, and vines—anything that comes from the earth. Although his baskets are in the shape of vessels, they do not function as containers. Increasingly they relate to trees.

Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)

Works by this artist (316 items)

Howard Cook, Hill Town, 1931, etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Barbara Latham Cook, 1986.10.3
Hill Town
Date1931
etching on paper
Not on view
Howard Cook, Seabird, 1926, woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Barbara Latham, 1980.122.125
Seabird
Date1926
woodcut on paper
Not on view
Howard Cook, Walpi, 1927, woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Barbara Latham, 1980.122.64
Walpi
Date1927
woodcut on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2016.11 - SAAM-2016.11_6 - 124929
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
November 13, 2015March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.