Mahaffey, Merrill

Merrill Mahaffey was born in 1937 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By the age 8, Mahaffey was already creating color pencil drawings of landscapes near his family home in Grand Junction, Colorado. His college training includes: Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction, Colorado; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; Sacramento State University, California where he earned his Bachelor of Art degree in 1959; and Arizona State University where Merrill Mahaffey received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1965.

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Merrill Mahaffey: Geological Geometry

Merrill Mahaffey: Geological Geometry

Published online courtesy of Western Art Collector, March 2013

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Canyon Views: Merrill Mahaffey Paints the Southwestern Landscape

Canyon Views: Merrill Mahaffey Paints the Southwestern Landscape

Published online courtesy of Southwest Art, February 2011

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Merrill Mahaffey Western Art Collector March 2009

Merrill Mahaffey Western Art Collector March 2009

Reprinted online courtesy Western Art Collector, March 2009

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Merrill Mahaffey: Abstracted Realism

Merrill Mahaffey: Abstracted Realism

Published courtesy ArtBook of the New West, Spring / Summer 2006

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Merrill Mahaffey: Faces in the Rock

Merrill Mahaffey: Faces in the Rock

Reprinted online courtesy Western Art Collector, March 2008

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Merrill Mahaffey: Landscape Painter - Epi. 80, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

Merrill Mahaffey: Landscape Painter - Epi. 80, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

Seasoned landscape painter and geological aficionado Merrill Mahaffey sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to revisit the defining moments of his career as a painter and as a professor of the arts. Merrill tells of uranium mines and working as a cowboy in 1950's Colorado, as well as the various characters he met through his skill with the brush including (but not limited to) Fritz Scholder, Eric Fischl,Greg Kondos, Wayne Thiebaud, and Elaine Horowitz.