PCM exhibit to highlight late artist Meehan

Self-portrait of Bill Meehan

The Putnam County Museum will present a retrospective of local artist and DePauw University art professor Bill Meehan beginning on Saturday, Oct. 8 and running through Feb. 11, 2023.

Loans from family, the museum and private collections will bring together the works of an artist who was comfortable and accomplished using mixed media, oils and watercolors. The exhibit will show Meehan’s love of people, place, and animals in abstract, still life and landscape, including his whimsical cows.

Besides the great amount of work he produced while exploring Indiana, Meehan’s sabbaticals and travels allowed him to create his art in Mexico, Argentina, Greece and diverse areas of the United States.

Journalist Ray Rice, who covered an exhibition of his work at DePauw for WISH-TV in 1990, observed that, “Bill Meehan is an artist and a teacher, who is as colorful and joyous as his brush on canvas.”

Meehan retired from DePauw in 1992. He left a collection of more than 1,700 works when he died in 1997.

A celebration of the exhibit’s opening will be held from 2-6 p.m. with a gallery chat at 3:30 p.m.

The Putnam County Museum, located at 1105 N. Jackson St., Greencastle, is open weekdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more information, persons may call the museum at 653-8419.