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Grover Cole

Grover Cole received his BFA from the University of Southern California and was an instructor and Professor of Architecture and Design at University of Michigan from 1940 to 50. He taught in the fields of ceramics, sculpture, design, drawing and painting. During those years he exhibited widely and was awarded the Founders Prize of the Detroit Institute of Arts for a painting which is in the permanent collection of the Museum. His first major showing. a painting entitled, “Two men in a Landscape”  was in the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco in 1939. He also exhibited at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery. America House in New York and at the Annual National Exhibition of Ceramics in Syracuse New York.

He completed at the same time, graduate work in painting and the history of Far Eastern Art. From 1942 -45 he was on leave of absence for military service with the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in  Western Europe. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his analysis and design of military statistics for the Allied General Staff.

From 1951-66 Mr. Cole was Art Director of the Columbia Broadcast System in New York. He was responsible for the visual design for network televisions such as The Jack Parr Show, The Ed Sullivan Show (six years ), Camera 3, Edward R. Morrows’s  See It Now, The Jackie Gleason Show,  Adventure, and many others. He was nominated for the Emmy award for the art direction of Adventure. He was friends with new art that included the likes of Andy Warhol and the other young artists, illistrators and set designers in New York.. From 1967-73 Mr. Cole served as the first Director of the Miami Art Center which later became the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Florida. While there he conceived and organized a number of major original exhibitions including Art of the Asian Mountains, The Artist and the Sea, and Art in Air and Space. He served as President of the Museum Directors Association of Miami which was to become Dade County’s Cultural Executives Council,Inc.

In 1973-74 he was Art Director  Koger Properties  and at the Jacksonville Art Museum. He participated in the design and installation of the Koger Collection of Oriental ceramics.

Grover Cole was the Art Director of WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami from 1974 until 1983. During those years he received innumerable awards from the national Association of Educational Broadcasters for television scenic and graphic design. Among his productions was After the Glass Box, What?, a one-hour documentary on directions in contemporary architecture. He was Art Director for  Que Pasa. USA ? which is still playing on many PBS Stations.

Since the end of 1982 Mr. Cole was painting exclusively and represented by the Green Gallery in Coconut Grove, where he had a one-person show in 1983 and another individual exhibition in January 1987, at the new Green Gallery in Coral Gables Florida. He also exhibited at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in 1983. There are Cole Works in the collections of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Goldberg, Traurig; Ira M.  Kroger, the Northern Trust Banks (Chicago and Miami); Southeast Bank, Miami. The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Mitchell Wolfson,Jr Collection of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, and the Metropolitan Dade County Art in Public Places Trust.

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