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Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American painter.[1] The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist".[2]

Life and work

Meyer received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1980,[3] two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1983, 1993), the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award (2008) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009).^{[citation needed]} In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a Heresies article entitled Femmage.[4][5]

In 1997 her sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[6]

Melissa Meyer's paintings and works on paper are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art,[7] The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[8] The Brooklyn Museum,[9] and The Jewish Museum,[10]

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