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William K. Munro (1918-2007)
“Bill” Munro was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1918, and in 1927 his family moved to Palmyra, New Jersey. He attended Palmyra High School and pursued his higher education at The Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, majoring in illustration. Here he would major in illustration and would meet his future wife, Jeanne Hamilton. Bill was drafted into the army and served in North Africa and Europe, and during that time carried a typewriter instead of a weapon. During this time he continued to paint and make wood engravings. He returned to the United States to marry Jeanne Hamilton, of Kingston, Pa. They began to raise a family in Palmyra and moved to Riverton, New Jersey in 1954. He worked at H.L.Yoh company in Philadelphia as a technical illustrator and art director. He and his wife were both avid watercolorists and spent what free time they had practicing their art, and staying active in the community art scene. Family vacations were always spent painting along a riverbank, hiking in the woods, or the rockbound coast of Maine. They would often exhibit their entries in local shows and in the Atlantic City Boardwalk and the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, New Jersey. Bill eventually became a freelancer and continued to keep his hands active in various branches of art production. The bread and butter of his career has been technical illustration, advertising, book and catalog design. He also continued to experiment artistically with new subjects and media, whether it be abstractions or collages, sculpture or acrylics. Bill is known for his paintings of the Riverton Yacht Club and his seascapes. He also painted the murals hanging in Palmyra High School. He has also received recognition in both the art of printmaking and watercolor. He has exhibited at the Baltimore Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Montclair Art Museum. Most recently he has been represented by the Thomas Margaret Gallery in Riverton. Bill retired in 2000, and moved in with his daughter, Judith, who lives in Montclair, New Jersey, near Anderson Park. He began sketching the trees in the park on his daily walks, getting to know each one individually, and enjoying the natural beauty that provides balance and distraction to the otherwise bustling town of Montclair.
Each of the selected drawings being shown in “Summer Share” at
BrassWorks, was sketched in Anderson Park. Purchases will be accepted in the
form of a donation to the Friends of Anderson Park in the amount on the price
list. Donations greater than the requested amount are greatly appreciated. Friends of Anderson Park, P.O. Box 43712, Montclair, NJ, 07043 www.friendsofandersonpark.org
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