Jack McLarty

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William James "Jack" McLarty (April 24, 1919 – July 10, 2011) was a surrealist painter, printmaker, and longtime teacher in the Pacific Northwest. He was born in Seattle and moved with his family to Portland, Oregon, in 1921. He studied at Benson High School in Portland, the Portland Museum Art School, and the American Artists School in New York from 1940 to 1941. After two years in New York, he returned to Portland and began teaching at the Museum Art School in 1945, where he stayed until retirement. McLarty worked with oils and later acrylics, and he made prints such as lithographs, serigraphs, woodcuts, wood engravings, and etchings, along with some stained glass design and sculpture.