Author: CT State Library

Monson, Edith Dale (1875-1977) Edith Dale Monson was born on August 26, 1875, in New Haven, Connecticut. She was descended from Dr. Aeneas Monson, a Revolutionary surgeon who removed musket balls from wounded soldiers on the patriot side and participated in the Battle of Yorktown. She attended public schools in New Haven and two years at Miss Johnstone’s Private School. She ta...

Monaghan, Theodore (1890-1984)Theodore Monaghan was born in Zurich, Switzerland on March 30, 1890. His parents were Irish. Monaghan was orphaned when both of his parents died in Hamburg, Germany. He was brought up in Germany, attending public schools in Hamburg. From a young age he could draw and model in clay. He began his formal art education with four years at the Hamburg Ar...

Mimsey, A. Reid (?)In 1934 A. Reid Mimsey completed a mural for the Atwater Training School in New Haven, Connecticut. It was executed in egg tempera and titled His Book. Mimsey started under the direction of the FERA and the Public Works of Art Project. It is unknown if he was transferred to the WPA Federal Arts Project. The dates of Mimsey’s birth and death are unknown. ...

Milici, Salvatore M. (1907-1982)Salvatore Milici was born on May 30, 1907, in New Haven, Connecticut where he attended public schools. Before working for the project he had worked as a carpenter, a landscape artist, an interior decorator, and a sign painter. He won the Beaux Arts Competition in 1928. In 1932 he graduated from the Yale Art School. He worked for the predecessor t...

 Milici, Raymond (1914-1998)Little is known about Raymond Milici. He was born in 1914 in New Haven, Connecticut and was a brother of Salvatore Milici. While working in the National Youth Administration, he was assigned to the Federal Arts Project for a few months. He worked with clay. Milici died in New Haven in 1998.Sources: WPA time card; Social Security Death Index; Obituary...

Michalczyk, Casimer (1914-2005)Casimir Michalczyk was born in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts in 1914. He attended Classical High School and after, worked on a mural for the Springfield Museum of Natural History. He enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1938. While attending he painted in Provincetown with John Frazier and apprenticed in stone carving in ...

Metelli, Guido (?)Guido Metelli lived in Hartford, Connecticut and worked for the Federal Arts Project on the Index of American Design from 1938-1939 under the supervision of John Matulis. His dates of birth and death are unknown. Sources WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter, September 1938.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Guido Metelli:S...

Merriam, Harold (?)Little is known about Harold Merriam. He worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project starting on February 28, 1936, creating 23 works for the Index of American Design. He may have lived in Westbrook, Connecticut from 1936-June 1938 and in Lyme from 1939-40. His residence in Westbrook was damaged by the 1938 hurricane. On May 10, 1959, the New York Timesreported i...

Meek, Clifton (1888-1973)Clifton Meek was born on January 22, 1888, in Fremont, Ohio. He learned telegraphy at an early age and by the time he was 17, was working for a railroad company. Looking for a better career, he attended a Cleveland school of art and became a cartoonist for the Scripps-McRae Syndicate first in Cleveland and then in San Francisco. In the latter, he drew a...

McManus, James Goodwin (1882-1958)James Goodwin McManus was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 5, 1882. He studied art under W.G. Bunce, Montague Flagg, Robert B. Brandegee, and Walter Griffin. He would become one of the most influential local artists in Connecticut. In 1910 he helped found the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and was its president from 1935 until 1938. ...