Gale Stockwell was a cartoonist for his high school paper, then studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1933 he was hired by the Public Works of Art Project, which paid a small wage to many struggling artists during the Depression. He lost track of a lot of his work after giving it to the government and many years later was not only surprised to find one of his images on a jigsaw puzzle, but also discovered that this same painting was hanging at the White House! Stockwell worked in advertising until 1954, when he retired to devote all of his time to painting colorful images of Missouri towns and landscapes. Born: Kansas City, Missouri 1907 Died: Colorado Springs, Colorado 1983 (https://americanart.si.edu/artist/gale-stockwell-4659) Gale W. Stockwell was known for his commercial art business ventures as well as his regional landscape and town view paintings. Worked primarily in watercolor. Resided at 712 NE 42nd Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri, the city where he was born and raised. A WPA artist beginning in 1933. During the Nixon administration his 1933 painting of Main Street in Parkville, Missouri hung in the White House. That painting is now in the collection of the Smithsonian. The highest price paid for one of his paintings at auction is $660. The average price at auction for a Midwest watercolor by Stockwell is $100 - $200. (https://www.justanswer.com/antiques/82e0a-gale-stockwell-painting-18-24-naylor-farm.html) Winner of the Gold Medal in oil painting at the Midwestern Artists Exhibition, a 5-state show in 1928. Won Bronze Medal in Watercolor in 1930. First prize in the Kansas City Art Institute SweepStake Show in 1942. First Prize in the Missouri State Fair in oil Painting in 1942. He won numerous prizes in the Greater Kansas City Art Association exhibits in the 1950s... His painting, " Storm Over the Ozarks", was shown at the Rockefeller Center... (http://www.holidays.net/stpattys/store/Gale-Stockwell-Watercolor_272642638126.html) undefined

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