Denver Lindley died on December 30, 2010 at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Matthew and Jessica Lindley, in Lexington, MA. He was 80
years old and was a resident of Duck, NC.
The self-portrait of Lindley shown at the right was on display at the Yale Class of '52 Artists & Authors Exhibit at the Sterling Memorial Library for the 50th reunion of our class, May 31 - July 31, 2002.
Denver's art is included in the collections of such noted Americans as Michael Forrestal, James A. Michener, C. David Thompson and John C. Morgernstern among others. The man author James Michener once described as "a lousy tennis partner," will be remembered by his friends and family as someone who was gentle, very funny and able to find (and share) the beauty in everything he painted.
Mr. Lindley was born in Princeton, NJ in 1930. The son of Denver Lindley and
Jane Hastings Hickok, he graduated from Hotchkiss and Yale University, class
of 1952. He moved to New York City where he attended the Arts Students
League and studied with Edwin Dickinson and George Grosz. In 1958, he
married Joan Watters, who also studied with Dickinson. He exhibited in the
Whitney Museum Annual (invited), had his first New York show at the Padawer
Gallery in 1960 and was subsequently represented by The Janet Nessler
Gallery in Manhattan.
In 1958, he and his wife Joan moved to Bucks County PA, where, from
1972-1976 Denver served as a Bucks County Commissioner and was a founding
member of the Bucks County Council on the Arts.
In 1988, he moved to Duck, NC, where he continued to paint, showing at Glenn
Eurešs Ghost Fleet Gallery, and he stayed active in local politics.
Lindley is survived by his daughter Jane Lindley and his son-in-law Pete
Pinardi of Seattle, and his son Matthew Denver Lindley, his daughter-in-law,
Jessica Hallowell, and his two grandchildren, Sam and Addie of Lexington,
MA.
