Herbert Creecy
American (1939–2003)
About the artist:
Herbert Creecy was born in 1939 in Norfolk, Virginia. He grew up in Buckhead, the fashionable district of Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at East Rivers Elementary School, attended the University of Alabama, and graduated from the Atlanta School of Art in 1964.
He exhibited at the Atlanta Art Association, Art in the Embassies program, US Department of State, Clark College, High Museum of Art, and OK Harris Gallery in New York. In the 1970's the Whitney Museum of American Art chose one of his paintings, and in 1977 his work was included in the Biennial at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Like William Melton Halsey, another abstract expressionist painter in Charleston, SC, Creecy chose to remain in the South. Herbert Creecy was one of Georgia''s most important artists.
He died June 30, 2003.
Source: AskArt
Herbert Creecy
American (1939–2003)
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About the artist:
Herbert Creecy was born in 1939 in Norfolk, Virginia. He grew up in Buckhead, the fashionable district of Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at East Rivers Elementary School, attended the University of Alabama, and graduated from the Atlanta School of