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Jay O'Meilia

American, 1927-2022

Birth PlaceTulsa, Oklahoma, United States, North America

BiographyArtist Jay Philip O'Meilia, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 17, 1927, achieved recognition in Oklahoma and elsewhere as a sports painter in the 1950s. A graduate of Tulsa Central High School, he served in the U.S. Navy as an artist during World War II and in Korea. After the war he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1946–47), at the Art Students League in New York (1945–46, 1947–49), and at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1946–47). He became noted for action paintings depicting tennis, polo, football, baseball, and golf, and he has also painted landscapes and portraits. He taught oil portraiture and watercolor at the Philbrook Art Center (now the Philbrook Museum of Art) in Tulsa.

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