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Rock Creek, KS
Guy Maccoy born as Guy Crittington McKay to Clifford McKay and Clara Angeline Young (Bringham Young's grandaughter)
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1904
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1906
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San Francisco Earthquake
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World War I Begins
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1914
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1923
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George Gershwin writes Rhapsody in Blue
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Kansas City, MO
Guy attends day and night courses at Kansas City Art Institute
Colorado Springs, CO
Guy attends summer sessions at Broadmoor Art Academy (Now Bemis School of Art,) Meets Thomas Hart Benton, Randall Davey, Monty Lewis, Vaclav Vytlacil, Alexander Kostellow, Anthony Angarola, Ernie Lawson, Boardman Robinson & Yamatulka
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1924
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1926
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Kansas City, KS
Guy meets Jenoi Pettit.
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U.S. Stock Market crashes, Great Depression begins.
New York, NY
Guy wins Tiffany Foundation scholarship in New York. Both Guy and Genoi head to New York. Anthony Angarola wins Guggenheim Fellowship, and he and Alex Kostello move to New York as well.
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1929
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1930
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Astronomers discover Pluto.
New York, NY
Guy wins Arts Student League scholarship.
Colorado Springs, CO
Guy teaches summer courses at Broadmoor with Monte Lewis.
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Prohibition repealed.
New York, NY
Guy leaves School and begins WPA's Federal Art Project under Dr. Herbert H. Spenden and directed by Ben Knotts. Meets Jackson Pollack during this time.
Guy is credited with murals in Central American Arts & Girls Industrial High School among others.
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1933
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1934
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New York, NY
Mayor La Guardia institutes a large poster project in the city. Guy becomes intimately involved with the project.
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New York, NY
Guy has the first one man show of serigraphs at the Contemporary Art Gallery. On exhibit are "Woman Holding Cat" & "Still Life".
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1938
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1939
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World War II begins.
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New York, NY
Guy Graduates from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in teaching.
Vermont
Guy begins work at the Poligraphic Lithographic Company as a color separator and dot-etcher for zinc lithographic plates. Continues to refine his serigraph process.
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1940
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1941
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Orson Welles directs and stars in Citizen Kane,
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WWII.
New York, NY
Guy becomes involved in "The Workshop" (later became the "National Serigraph Society") where he and Genoi remain directly involved up to 1947.
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Los Angeles, CA
Guy and Genoi relocate from Vermont. Other serigraphers follow suit and move to Los Angeles.
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1945
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1947
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Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
Los Angeles, CA
Guy continues his Industrial work with Bolter Lithograph then begins teaching at Jepson Art Institute along with additional staff, Genoi Pettit, Rico Lebrun, William Moore, Francis de Erdely, Bill Brice and Howard Warshaw.
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Los Angeles, CA
Guy forms "Western Serigraph Society" and becomes it's first President.
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1948
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1949
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Los Angeles, CA
Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles's director Millard Sheets convinces Guy to come to Otis and teach. Guy remains at Otis for eleven years.
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Color Television is introduced.
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1951
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1953
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Hemmingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for Old Man in the Sea.
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Los Angeles, CA
Guy retires from Otis Art Institute.
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1960
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1964
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Los Angeles, CA
Guy teaches Art courses at UCLA and Palos Verdes Art Center.
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Los Angeles, CA
Guy is asked to join and assists the newly formed Los Angeles Print Society.
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1965
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1967
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World's first successful heart transplant.
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Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become first men to land on the moon.
Chatsworth, CA
Guy begins private Art instruction and classes out of his Chatsworth home.
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1969
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1970
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The Beatles break up.
Chatsworth, CA
A devastating fire sweeps from the Santa Suzanna mountains to the Malibu mountain range. Guy and Genoi's home, studio and all their earthly possessions and a life's worth of Art and memorabilia where all destroyed. Two weeks before the fire, the insurance company cancels Guy's policy for being in high fire risk area.
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Intel introduces the world's first microprocessor.
Canoga Park, CA
With immense out pouring from students, associates and his fellow artists, Guy establishes the first of two new Guy Maccoy Studios in the Canoga Park area near his new residence.
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1971
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1972
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Canoga Park, CA
The second larger and greatly improved Guy Maccoy Studio opens and Guy begins painting, producing his own serigraphs, conducts Art classes and seminars as well as begins taking on commissioned Art from renown Artists looking for fine Art limited serigraphs.
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President Ford escapes two assasination attempts.
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1975
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1981
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Launch of STS-1 begins Space Shuttle era.
Los Angeles, CA
After battling with advancing stages of A.L.S. for two years, Guy succumbs while in the hospital with friends at his side he and his gentle greatness passes.
The Guy Maccoy Studio is continued under the direction of Yvonne Linnemeyer and produces approximately 10 more commissioned works over the next 5 years.
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Los Angeles, CA
Genoi Pettit Maccoy passes away 17 months after Guy.
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1982
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1986
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Canoga Park, CA
The Guy Maccoy Studio closes.
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Los Angeles, CA
Alan Linnemeyer launches www.GuyMaccoy.com as an educational / memorial Web site, as well as a place to purchase original Guy Maccoy serigraphs online.
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2012
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