Jack Youngerman, a sculptor, painter and printmaker, is a three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Award, in 1972, 1984 and 1985. He was the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts Award recipient and was also awarded a Fellowship from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation in 2006. In his art life, Jack Youngerman has belonged to various art movements such as Hard-edge painting in the 1960s, minimalism and abstract art later on.Jack Youngerman was born in the United States of America. In 1947, Jack Youngerman graduated from the University of Missouri for a degree in Journalism after studying art for two years in the University of North Carolina.He later went to France on scholarship and enrolled in Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1948. He studied drawing with Jean Souverbie. After his art career picked up, he associated with great artists such as Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, his lifelong friend Francois Morellet and Peggy Guggenheim.In 1956, Jack Youngerman moved back to the United States, specifically New York. Later on in 1959, he was included in the 16 Americans Exhibit that was held at the Museum of Modern Art.In the 1960s and 1970s, he sought to make his art in steel and aluminum sculptures and was more interested in non-western art and had an interest in organic forms. This was the period he chose to shift from the flatness of art on canvas to voluptuous three dimension free-form structures. He reinvented his earlier aluminum and steel forms and shapes in fiberglass with Christopher Janney's, a light and sound artist, assistance. He majored primarily in Lithography as a printmaker.  Read Less