Guy Maccoy

Maccoy was born on October 7, 1904^[1] in Valley Falls, Kansas.^[2] He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Art Students League of New York.^[3] For a time he worked at the Federal Art Project. He was married to fellow artist Genoi Pettit (1894-1982).^[4]

In the 1940s Maccoy's work was included in several of the Dallas Museum of Art exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society.^[5][6][7]

In 1947 Maccoy moved to Los Angeles, California where he taught at the Otis Art Institute and was a founder of the Western Serigraph Society.^[4] He died on March 18, 1981^[1] in Los Angeles.^[2]

Maccoy's work is in the collection of the British Museum,^[8] the National Gallery of Art,^[9] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,^[10] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[2]

• Media related to Guy Maccoy at Wikimedia Commons
• Oral history interview with Guy and Genoi Pettit Maccoy, 1965 July 24