Edward Schmidt

Edward Schmidt, a recipient of the Prix de Rome, studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Paris. He received painting grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill, Greenshields and Adolph Gottlieb Foundations. He has been awarded the Classical America Arthur Ross Award for Painting, and won, with the architect Michael Graves, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Clos Pegase Competition. He recently had a solo show at Shanghai University. Mr. Schmidt is Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art.