About the artist:

Born in Keyport, New Jersey, Thomas Strickland studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, the American Art School, and the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York. A resident of Miami, Florida, he is a member of the Miami Palette Club and the Pastel Society of America. He won the summer, 1998 Atlantic Papers award for his pastel self-portrait. STUDIED Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, N.J. American Art School, New York National Academy of Fine Arts, New York, with Robert Philipp. SELECTED AWARDS Digby Chandler Prize, Knickerbocker Artist Exhibitions, 1965. First Place, Fine Arts League, Annual Nat'l Art SHow, La Junta, Colo., 1973 Charles Hawthorne Memorial Award, National Arts Club, New York. 1977 2nd Prize, 10th National Juried Art Show, PSO, Coos Bay, Oregon, 1997 Winner, Hahnemumhle Pastel Paper Shelf Portrait Contest, 1997 1st Prize, International Juried Competition, Lafayette Art Association, 1998 Atlantic Paper Award, Degas Pastel Society national Exhibition, LA 1998 SELECTED EXHIBITION 1st Annual Metropolitan Young Artist Show, National Arts Club, 1958 American Artists Professional League, New York City, 1958, 1961, 1997 Butler Institute of American Art, Fine Arts Festival, Youngstown, Ohio, 1963 Salon Rouge du Casino, Dieppe 1967 Exposition Intercontinental, Monaco, 1966 - 68 New York Galerie, NICE, 1971 7e Grand Prix international de peinture de la cote d'Azur, CANNES, 1971 6th Annual Membership Exhibition, Miami Art Center, 1973 Elliot Museum, Martin County Historical Society, Stuart, FL, January, 1974 American Painters in Paris, 1975 Annual National Pastel Show, La Fond Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997, 1999 Renaissance in Pastel, Connecticut Pastel Society, Wallingford, CT, 1997 Audubon Artist, Annual Exhibition, New York, 1997, 1998 National Juried Art Show, PSO, Coos bay Art Museum, Oregon, 97, 98 Pastel Society of the Southwest, Membership Exhibit, Fort Worth, TX, 1998 Pastel Society of New Mexico Nat. Painting Exhibition, Albuquerque, 1999 Pastel Society West Coast, "Pastels USA" Auburn, California, 1999