Arthur Meltzer

1893-1989

Meltzer was born in 1893 in Minneapolis, MN.

He worked as both a painter and painting instructor, at Moore College in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, where he taught for 24 years. Meltzer’s specialties were figures, murals and landscapes, and his preferred medium was oil.

He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art with R. Koehler, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he was awarded the Cresson Traveling Fellowship in 1921, with J. Pearson and D. Garber

He was a member of the Woodmere Art Association, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Mystic Society of Artists, etc.

Meltzer was awarded the gold medal by the Ligoner Art League in 1961, and also honored by the New Haven Paint and Clay Club in 1931.

He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery, Woodmere Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Art Club among others.

Arthur Meltzer died in 1989.