Earl B. Pardon
Professor Emeritus of Art Earl B. Pardon died on May 1, 1991. He was 64.
Pardon came to ΞΆΓάΘ¦ in 1951 as an instructor and did not retire until 38 years later. From 1968 to 1977 he served as chair of the Department of Art during its final years on the Scribner Campus. He spent the last 10 years of his teaching career in the recently named Saisselin Art Building following the long-awaited move to the Jonsson Campus.
In 1980 Pardon was named the Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Research Lecturer. At the sametime, a retrospective exhibition was held featuring 300 paintings, drawings, pieces ofsculpture, and jewelry. World renowned as a jeweler who fashioned pieces from gold,silver, enamel, and colored gemstones, he created the presidential medallion and chainthat ΞΆΓάΘ¦ presidents wear during formal academic ceremonies.
His art work was featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country and is in thepermanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Craft Museumin New York, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and theMontreal Museum of Decorative Arts.
Pardon earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Memphis Academy of Arts and held anM.F.A. from Syracuse University. He is survived by his wife Eunice, his son Tod, a brother,and asister